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...despite the straight-forward comparison the media and some political analysts have set up between the corporate model and the Bush presidency, Harvard Business School (HBS) professors say there is no single "CEO model...
...Harvard program has tailed off a bit recently, Cahoon has the track record in revitalization. A man known for his straight-forward style, he built Princeton into one of the top programs in the conference...
Nuria crashes into a stone wall, killing herself and maiming Cesar. Lucky to be alive, he has lost his looks and his face is hideously disfigured. What was a straight-forward storyline before the accident now becomes hopelessly entangled, as Cesar's dreams, nightmares and fantasies are showed as if they were real. Unable to cope with his face, he tries wearing a mask and calls himself the "Phantom of the Opera...
...scene less ostensibly "domestic" then the other subjects collected here. The piece simply displays the artist, printed in red, watching himself, printed in blue, chiseling himself, again printed in red, into a woodcut. "Studio," self-consciously enacting the artist's relationship to his art, seems to be more straight-forward than the other prints in showing Mansen's thoughts on his art. Here, the artist and his act of creation take preeminence over their own subject in a way that is less obvious, though perhaps equally true, in the other works in "About the House...
Kohl's most endearing trait is his straight-forward, bluntly honest voice--one might surmise that after thirty years experience with school-age children, the author's gift for clearing out needless discourse has been honed to a razor's edge. Simple diction, while vital for pedantry, has its drawbacks in the modern non-fiction market: every once in a while Kohl's hand can be felt patting the reader on the head, as if recruiting another kindergartner into his throngs of supporters. This is not to say that condescension (if it can be called such) is not totally displeasing...