Word: stints
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...trademark tan has dimmed, and his voice softens when he recounts the tumultuous events surrounding his downfall as a corporate titan. But if former Vivendi Universal CEO Jean-Marie Messier no longer boasts the "master of the world" moniker, don't expect to find him repudiating his stint as an empire-building media tycoon either. "I still receive e-mails and get stopped in the street by young people saying 'You gave me the desire to form my own company,'" says Messier...
...able to scale this company into a global leader and enable Facebook users worldwide to communicate and share information better,” Sandberg said in a statement. “I am thrilled to have this opportunity.” Prior to her six-year stint at Google, Sandberg was chief-of-staff to former University President Lawrence H. Summers when he served as secretary of the treasury from 1999 to 2001. “Sheryl is an extraordinarily capable, organized, decisive, and caring person who will do great things for Facebook,” said Summers, who served...
...redundancy, a second son in a tradition that regards the eldest child as heir and his younger sibling as "the spare", and in an age that abrasively questions the point of the monarchy while devouring reports of its activities. Frequently derided as a nightclubbing wastrel before his 10-week stint in Helmand province, the prince now finds himself lionized by many of the same voices that used to criticize him. "I don't want to sit around Windsor, because I generally don't like England that much and it's nice to be away from all the press...
...Scarlett Johansson, born Nov. 22, 1984, a leading actress at 11 as Manny in Manny & Lo, then at 13 as the troubled girl redeemed by Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer. All three girls kept acting through their teen years (Portman tucked a Harvard degree and a graduate stint at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem into her work schedule) and have successfully made the transition to adult stars...
...through her restaurant stint, McCulla picked up two other night jobs: working for a pastry chef and doing culinary research for the food writer Joan Nathan. For one, she scaled batter and dough, working the 35-pound mixer and experimenting with decorating. For the other, she dove into 14th century French cookbooks looking for the origins of foie gras. (Turns out it may be a descendent of Kosher meat preservation techniques...