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...this is small-scale stereotyping. If I really wanted to offend Harvard Asians, I might sit down and write an article in which I was, well, a tad critical of the Asian community. For instance, I might suggest that there was, let's say, a slight trend toward ethnic self-segregation, or a slight proclivity for the sciences over the humanities among Asian-Americans. And I might, if I were so inclined (not that anyone would be), get downright nasty and suggest that a large chunk of these self-segregated, math-and-science types are self-absorbed, clannish and downright...
...instance, last year 156 employees from Kelly Services' Scientific Resources Group held their annual meeting on a four-day Bahamian cruise aboard Norwegian's Majesty. Meetings took place Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. till noon, leaving afternoons free. (And obviously, ducking meetings for the tennis court is a tad more difficult at sea.) Dinners were scheduled so employees from different locations could get together. "The impact it had on the staff was incredible. Many had never been on a cruise," says Rolf Kleiner, a senior vice president at Kelly. "It also came out cheaper than a land-based resort...
Olympians are urged to aim high, but might it be a tad excessive for the scandal-plagued International Olympic Committee to aim for a Nobel Peace Prize? Not to JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH, the body's mercurial president, who is said to be lobbying "feverishly" for a plan to stage the Games in Seoul in hopes that this would engender warm feelings between North and South Korea and possibly cement reconciliation. "It's a brilliant I.O.C. comeback plan," says a source familiar with Samaranch's ploy. "After all the scandals, the corruption and sycophancy, the I.O.C. can finally be seen...
...sending MTV a video in which he had himself gassed with pepper spray and shot with a Taser. (He and MTV agreed not to air a segment of the video in which he put on a bulletproof vest and shot himself.) And if you're nonplussed--and maybe a tad defensive about being nonplussed ("But I'm cool! I liked Beavis and Butt-Head!")--Knoxville is doing his job. The show is succeeding well enough without you to capture more than 2 million young viewers a week...
...lived--and may have died--for. Before long, the widower finds himself on the trail of a shadowy pharmaceutical multinational selling a questionable TB drug to Africans. No one plays this sort of cat-and-mouse game better than Le Carre, although this time good and evil are a tad too easy to tell apart...