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...Lenicheck ’02. “Going abroad was a chance to get out of that comfort zone, to get away and gain perspective on life. I felt free to do things because I wanted to do them, without my friends, parents or professors looking over my shoulder...
...second behind Duke in the post-season tournament, North Carolina held true to form. Teasley scored 25 points and Brown added 23 in the first round of the tourney when the team beat Maryland, 78-53. It was somewhat of a Pyrrhic victory, however, as Metcalf strained her right shoulder and was ineffective the rest of the tournament...
...very good at it." Many European armed forces, by contrast, are now structured with peacekeeping as their primary mission. In Bosnia, says Grant, American forces will not walk down a street unprotected, while British and French soldiers soak up information in cafes. Unsurprisingly, it is Europeans who shoulder the burden of keeping the peace in Kosovo, Bosnia and now Kabul. But suggest to European policymakers that their primary military role should be mopping up after the Americans have fought a war, and they throw a frightful fit, as if they were being relegated to the second rank. Given that European...
Williams too has everything, in a sense: a wife, three children, a home in San Francisco, a ranch in Northern California, Picassos and a private jet. The fact that he is again hitting the road at 50, sweating and joking and nursing a shoulder he dislocated in January, says something about his compulsion to hear people laugh...
...authors of When Generations Collide: Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work (HarperBusiness; 352 pages; $25.95) describe a work environment that is becoming ever more fractious. "For the first time in our history, we have four separate and distinct generations working shoulder to shoulder and face-to-face in a stressful, competitive workplace," they write. They divide corporate America into four groups: the hardworking and patriotic Traditionalists; the optimistic and self-absorbed Baby Boomers; the skeptical, technology-savvy Generation Xers; and the barely twentysomething Millennials, who count Britney Spears among their inspirations...