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Ghostface Killa (actual Wu-Tang member): Dizzy...
Always wanted to be a member of the Wu-Tang Clan but were afraid your name wasn't cool enough for the likes of Ol' Dirty Bastard? Quit worrying. Everyone can get a complimentary Wu Name--denoting your status within the multiplatinum rap group at www.recordstore.com/wuname Of course, whether these are just nicknames or sly character assessments is unclear...
...Tang Haisong imagined that the toughest part of his Internet start-up would be getting the forms approved by Beijing's fossilized bureaucracy. But that was nothing compared with what the baseball-capped chairman of Etang.com faced when he began hiring for his company, which aims to become a Yahoo for China's youth. Good managers were even harder to find than efficient bureaucrats. "In terms of Internet technology, China is only five years behind the West," says Tang, who graduated from the Harvard Business School in 1998. "But in management expertise, we're at least two decades behind...
With even the state sector combing business-school rosters for employees, capitalistic start-ups like Tang's may have an even tougher time attracting top-notch managers. Happily, he's been trained for that. "One of the things we talked about at Harvard was the ability to deal with unexpected problems creatively and quickly," he says...
...goodnik. One of the eds was recently nicknamed "erratic assassin" in Wu-Tang lingo, and she may rampage soon if she doesn't snag a summer job--from Let's Go preferably. Another threatened to kill his bubbly co-worker with his leatherman knife. Ooops. Blame it on nicotine withdrawal. Yet another was nearly arrested in the wee hours of Sunday morning after sharing his semi-digested pasta and savory chyme with an imposing 220 pound, goatee-sporting soul at a Bickford's in Braintree. And with the sidewalk...