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...February, Whitman said that for eBay, "market leadership in China will be a defining characteristic of leadership globally." Lots of big-time CEOS say things like that these days. Few follow it up by summering in Shanghai. The company cast Whitman's stint in China as business as usual. "She goes there quite a bit [but] it's not too extraordinary," says Matt Bannick, president of eBay's international division. "You know, Meg travels a lot." Whitman, in an e-mail interview with TIME, says, "China is unique. It is growing rapidly, and it has a tremendous amount of potential...
...between her public exhibitionism and her private modesty makes a certain amount of sense. After all, Goldfrapp, who is the eponymous half of a duo with Will Gregory, has long been something of a chameleon. She declines to divulge her age, but admits to a convent-school upbringing, a stint in London squats and three years singing in a Belgian dance company before starting art school back in the British capital. As the result of a performance-art piece in the early 1990s - she was singing while milking a cow at a party - she caught the attention of the electronic...
...follow the Orthodox faith but not to the extremes of the ultra-religious. Born in 1949 to a pious family in Brooklyn's Borough Park, Sammy spent eight years in religious schools before transferring to a public high school, where he majored "in sports," he says. After a stint studying automotive mechanics, Sammy joined the Marine Corps in 1968 just in time to ship out to Vietnam. He was badly wounded twice and spent the next year in a military hospital. But he "always knew [he] would go to live in Israel," he says. "It was part...
Nelson has served as associate dean for Greek affairs since 1998 and will leave Cornell at the end of the month, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. Prior to her stint at Cornell, Nelson, who has been working in higher education for almost two decades, was the director of the Office of Greek Life at Syracuse University...
Born in Detroit, Mich., Goodenow got his start on the ice by playing junior hockey before attending Harvard. After earning second-team All-ECAC honors as the squad’s captain in 1974, he enjoyed a brief stint in the International Hockey League before turning to the University of Detroit Law School...