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...million for his 2001 tell-all, Jack: Straight from the Gut. Of course, there are motivations for writing a book besides money: the earnest desire to pass along lessons learned, the urge to settle a few scores, not to mention ego. This month brings three new CEO tomes that span the spectrum of management styles from California New Age to pinstripe M.B.A. As different as they are, these corporate chiefs all worry about similar issues--making better products, weathering economic downturns, motivating employees--albeit in their own vocabularies...
...Stadium, blanketing the home side of the field to the curve of the horseshoe and occupying a large portion of the visiting side as well. The attendance surpassed any non-Yale game dating back as far as 2002. The highest non-Yale attendance for a Harvard game during that span was the Nov. 16, 2002 contest at Penn, which attracted 18,630 fans and the ESPN “College Gameday” show to Franklin Field. The 2005 home opener against Brown, a 38-35 double-overtime win for the Crimson and the only blemish on the Bears?...
...control. The most exciting moment of the weekend came in the first game with Harvard trailing by a score of 25-19. A string of aggressive kill attempts and nearly miraculous digs and subsequent returns by both teams built upon one another for what seemed to be a span of nearly an entire minute. The crowd grew louder and louder as the disbelief of each successive play was topped only by that which followed it. Dartmouth finally put the point away with a laser-like shot that just barely split the diving, outstretched arms of Kocurek and junior Katherine McKinley.It...
...least upgrading the structures they have. New Jersey is requiring all new school buildings to meet stricter environmental standards, and California and Massachusetts have made millions available to green their classrooms. It all comes at an opportune time: with baby-boomer-era buildings reaching the end of their life span, the U.S. must embark on a new wave of school construction anyway. "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do this right," says Ted Bardacke, a senior associate at Global Green, an international environmental group...
Christopher Hitchens once devoted an entire book to portraying Mother Teresa as a phony, so perhaps Billy Graham got off easy when Hitchens described him, in a recent C-Span appearance, as "a self-conscious fraud," who didn't believe a word of what he preached, but was just in business for the money...