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Eisner received the smackdown of his career at Disney's annual shareholder meeting in Philadelphia last week, suffering a 43% vote of no confidence from investors. You would think it would have prompted the board to take a long, hard look at whether he was more liability than asset. But its response, while swift, was largely unsatisfying to critics: the board let Eisner retain his role as chief executive but tapped director George Mitchell to replace him as chairman--even though Mitchell himself received a 24% no-confidence vote...
He’s laid the smackdown for a living and wiped the floor with Minnesota politicians, but his next stop may be the bench press at the MAC. Professional wrestler and former Minnesota Gov. Jesse “The Body” Ventura has accepted a paid post at Harvard for next semester, Institute of Politics (IOP) spokesperson Andy I. Solomon ’89 confirmed yesterday...
...Hawaiian, born Chad Rowan, brought glitter and cosmopolitanism to the ancient and solemn Japanese sport. Now Akebono, 34, is stunning the sumo world again with the announcement that he'll join Japan's brutal K-1 kickboxing league--a career move tantamount to Mikhail Baryshnikov's joining WWE SmackDown. "My zeal for combative sports never cooled down," Akebono says. Plus, he wants shapelier calves...
Club leaders, according to Chevalier, are “taking some time off” to recover from the UC smackdown before planning their next act. But don’t feel sorry for the owners of the Wrap restaurant, who won’t know what they were missing. “They don’t know we exist,” says Chevalier. “We tried to keep it under wraps...
With access to cable television and surrounded by friends obsessed with “Monday Night Raw” and “Smackdown,” Nowinski had little choice but to watch, idolizing rising stars Triple H and Kurt Angle...