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Following his last mayoral stint in 1999, Duehay decided to retire, so that he could focus on volunteer and fund-raising work...
Schanberg’s was introduced to journalism during a stint in the U.S. Army. Working for the division newspaper, Schanberg worked with the American foreign correspondents assigned to cover his division. He said that experience was pivotal...
...Instead, armed with a green card, McKenzie took a stint on Broadway and a stab at Hollywood, but neither made much of a splash. Munched by a shark in Deep Blue Sea (1999), the New York Times groused: "Jacqueline McKenzie plays a character so vague she might be best described as the movie's extra (and most disposable) woman." Her career philosophy has always been to "throw it all up on the ceiling and something might stick," but for a while nothing much did. Here was the case of a remarkable actress waiting for the next character to click...
When Korean university student Chang Je Hyung did a brief stint at Samsung's office in Berlin last year, it made him angry. He had to help prepare a holiday trip to Germany for chairman Lee Kun Hee and his family. According to Chang, dozens of Samsung employees spent two months sweating over details of the private visit, even going to fancy restaurants to try out food the chairman might eat. Instead of tipping off the mainstream media, Chang sent a first-person account to online newspaper OhmyNews earlier this year. It created a sensation...
Anxious to shore up sagging recruiting numbers, the U.S. Army says it will offer prospects a 15-month enlistment option, instead of the usual two- to six-year hitch they're currently asked to sign. But will the shorter stint really solve the Army's recruiting woes? For one thing, those 15 months come only after the recruit has completed basic and advanced individual training, which can take another three to six months depending on the job a recruit is headed for. Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University, argues the Army should make the commitment 15 months total...