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Anatoly Dobrynin, who died April 6 at 90, was not your average diplomat. As the current U.N. Security Council so plainly put it in a statement, "He played a major role in saving the world from a nuclear disaster." Dobrynin, who worked with six American Presidents as the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., took on that position in 1962. Almost immediately, he was involved in negotiations with the Kennedy brothers to defuse the Cuban missile crisis. Originally an engineer, Dobrynin was ambassador for 24 Cold War years; altogether his storied diplomatic career lasted more than 40 years. While serving...
...Hurd quickly stopped work on product lines like televisions where HP wasn't already either No. 1 or No. 2. Next he consolidated the data centers from which HP conducted its operations, going from 85 to six. Once the financial crisis hit, Hurd slashed salaries across the board, including his own by 20%. "In an environment like this, there's no margin for error and no tolerance for inaction," Hurd wrote in a staff memo last year...
...That took some doing, considering that by 1999 she was 38 and had spent seven years in L.A. on a "relentless" but only marginally fruitful quest for comedy, acting and singing gigs. But that spring, she ran into Christopher Guest in a local restaurant; the pair had worked together six months earlier on a Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercial. He asked her to drop by his office, she recalls, and by the end of the day, Lynch was cast in Best in Show. The film - a loose, often improvised look at the odd world of competitive dog breeding - suited...
...sophomore pitcher allowed nine hits and three runs in six innings before being replaced by classmate Will Keuper...
...Crimson kept on rolling until the seventh inning, when the Bulldogs were able to put together a late-game rally, scoring three runs in the bottom of the seventh to cut in half a six-run lead. But Harvard still managed finish off the game with a convincing three-run win, one that would prove a stark contrast from the next game...