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Enter Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis-based financier whose takeover antics in the 1980s struck fear into the hearts of companies like ITT and Disney. Jacobs, a reformed predator, now runs Genmar Holdings, a remnant of his buccaneering days and a company whose principal business is building pleasure boats. Boatbuilding is messy, environmentally hazardous and so unpleasant a job that Genmar has a hard time getting workers to do it. Pyramid built a few test hulls for Genmar, but Kirila's system wasn't refined enough for Jacobs' engineers. "They were 90% there, and we needed 100%," says Jacobs...
...Cambridge resident reports that while walking along Beacon Street, she was struck by a motor vehicle. The driver was furious at her for hitting his car and he proceeded to yell at the resident. He left but upon his return, his passenger exited the car and attacked the resident. Both the driver and passenger fled the scene...
Then disaster struck. It was Saturday morning. I decided to take the dog and my two-year-old to the park--a big mistake, since they both need to be held. At some point, one of them kicked off the Digi-Walker somewhere in the tall grass. I called the folks at New Lifestyles, who told me that losing one's Digi-Walker is such a common problem that they're going to introduce a model that comes in tennis-ball yellow. I can't wait. I've probably logged 20,000 steps just looking for mine...
...crews have been dreading since 1998, when then-mayor Ed Rendell won his bid to bring the GOP convention - and the attendant media frenzy - to his beloved city. The decision was a triumph for Philadelphia's corps of revivalists, long dedicated to bolstering their city's battered image, and struck fear into the hearts of city workers, who knew the spotlight would cast an unforgiving glare on urban blight. And that meant a marathon of scrubbing, painting, trimming and pruning... not to mention a few instances of creative camouflage...
...Despite his move into opposition, though, Berezovsky is unlikely to find himself in a showdown with the president, to whom he still expresses loyalty. Party politics means comparatively little in Moscow's corridors of power, where the deals that count are often struck far away from the public eye. Hence the dolls within dolls...