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Gunter Thielen didn't expect to play peacemaker when he took over as chief executive of Germany's Bertelsmann in August 2002. The company was laden with $3.5 billion in debt and a slew of dubious new assets, including the controversial online file-sharing site Napster and the now defunct Rosie magazine in the U.S. Still, Thielen's biggest challenge was an internal one: Thomas Middelhoff, the flamboyant CEO Thielen replaced, left behind a simmering crisis between the $22 billion firm and its key owners, the Mohn family. Reinhard Mohn, the 82-year-old patriarch, was so upset by Middelhoff...
...notched a point in each of this weekend’s games...Charlie Johnson tallied his first goal of an injury-shortened season in the first period against the Golden Knights...Harvard’s penalty kill went 9-for-10 over the North Country weekend, amassing a slew of impressive blocks and clears...Assistant captain Tom Cavanagh, who has four goals and 10 assists on the season, is now fifth in the ECAC in points, averaging 1.57 per game. He is ninth on the list for goals, third for assists, and fourth for power-play points...
...Saints dominated early, taking a slew of quick shots and corralling the puck in the Crimson’s end with ease...
Since then, the two have done a slew of experiments over the past several years, largely focused on the role of running in human evolution...
...seems that some of these objectives have eluded me thus far. When the objectives include not offending the subjects of a piece, a slew of passionately displeased e-mails is a Harvardian indication of failure. And as someone who tends to have qualms with the very notion of there being a last word, it took some energy to wrap my brain around the fact that my work was being perceived as that word. And why wouldn’t it? I did, after all, claim a decisive stance on a controversial issue in a confident tone. I put my opinion...