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...When we arrive, we often have to use the delivery entrance," he says. "On most trains there isn't space for wheelchairs, and we are put in the common area where other passengers put their luggage." Political will and injections of funding could smooth out most problems with public transport. Europe's rich heritage of old buildings throws up knottier problems. A survey last year by the office of Rome city councillor Ileana Argentin, 40, a lawyer with the genetic disease spinal amyotrophy, found that only 20% of public buildings in the city were fully accessible; wheelchair users could enter...
...what Otellini has in mind. So how does he see Intel handling this raft of new challenges? For most companies, losing the CEO (Barrett must step down at age 65, according to Intel policy) would only add to the crisis. But Intel has a long history of smooth transitions from one leader to the next, and Otellini has been the heir apparent for more than two years. "Bob [Noyce] was the consummate entrepreneur," says Otellini, describing the company's founding chief. "Gordon [Moore] was the genius. Andy [Grove] was the management guru. Craig [Barrett]'s legacy was building our manufacturing...
...close, Arnold Schwarzenegger seems not quite real, an animatronic version of himself. His skin is waxworks smooth, his hair untroubled by gray, his accent so often imitated that the real thing sounds like someone goofing on Ahhnold. He speaks informally-there is no hortatory political baloney to him-but we are not really having a conversation. The Governor of California has his lines, and he recites them, just as he did onscreen, with a knowing, ironic clumsiness. All of which tends to undercut his current message, which is quite radical. After a year of trying to negotiate with his state...
...Smooth Finish Three banks seeking greater influence over the running of Formula One claimed victory in their legal dispute with the sport's supremo Bernie Ecclestone. The banks own 75% of SLEC, the firm that controls Formula One Holdings...
Sure there were hiccups along the way. Neither of the roads taken to an ECAC title was smooth despite the lofty expectations heaped upon the Crimson’s shoulders. And each of Harvard’s three NCAA tournament appearances thus far have ended in heartbreak...