Word: succession
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...Despite the rather mediocre finish, the Crimson’s weekend began well, with a 6-2 record on Saturday in the first round robin of the regatta. Harvard found itself tied with its counterparts from Boston College with the best record in their group after Day 1.This Saturday success placed the Crimson into Sunday’s top fleet, where the team struggled to a 2-7 record on the day, which was marked by very windy conditions. The Eagles took home the team victory on the weekend, bettering their solid Saturday record with an even better...
...little chastisement for it. While it will not likely be repeated in every company that is doing poorly, a resignation like Wagoner’s tells executives in other industries, especially corporate finance, that their jobs are still contingent on performance. If they do not lead their companies to success, they will be held responsible...
Over five hundred walkers came together on Saturday for the Sixth Annual Walk for Haiti, successfully raising over $40,000 dollars for Harvard-affiliated international healthcare organization Partners in Health (PIH), according to Karen Fritsche, the walk’s co-founder. This year’s theme was “Housing for Haiti,” as 100 percent of the funds will be used to rebuild homes in Haiti, where land and infrastructure were devastated by two hurricanes last summer, Fritsche said. She estimated the three-mile walk along the Charles River raised enough money to build...
...truth is, Kim Jong Il and the regime he heads can live without subjecting North Koreans to revolutionary ditties from space. Yesterday's launch, from the North's standpoint, was an almost unequivocal success, even if the satellite now sleeps with the fishes. Diplomatic and intelligence sources in Seoul and Tokyo contend that Pyongyang's biggest aim was to increase the range of its Taepodong II rocket. In 1998 it launched a predecessor that traveled about 1,060 miles (1,700 km). On July 4, 2006, another long-range rocket broke apart shortly after launch. Yesterday's rocket flew more...
...also a diplomatic success because it has - for the moment anyway - tied the Obama Administration in knots. The White House's aim - publicly voiced last week by Stephen Bosworth, President Obama's special envoy for North Korea - has been to re-energize the so-called six-party talks that focus on North Korean denuclearization, and even to engage the North directly. Bosworth was quoted as saying that will still be the case "after the dust from the missiles settles...