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Boyle talked about one such fighter, “the teacher,” whom she described as a “kind, jovial guy” who hated Saddam Hussein...
...like e-mail, preferring to give vague orders to subordinates, like telling his chief financial officer, Scott Sullivan, to "hit the numbers." According to Ebbers' trial lawyer, Reid Weingarten, there was no smoking gun, no hard evidence to implicate the former chief of WorldCom--a college dropout, Sunday-school teacher and small-town basketball coach--as the orchestrator of the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history. "You thought you could trust him," says Alex Bryant, an ex--WorldCom sales manager in Springfield, Mo. Soon after WorldCom bought MCI, Bryant recalls, Ebbers addressed a group of employees and urged them...
...parents, however, had other dreams for their daughter?they saw her as a piano teacher for young children. When Kato announced she intended to study physics at college, Kato's mother burst into tears. "'Physics is for men,' she said. 'It's not ladylike...
...countless households and classrooms across Japan. Social-science and humanities courses remain popular choices for freshman women, while sciences such as physics and chemistry and engineering are still seen as disciplines for men. In a 2002 study of Japanese middle school students, the number of girls who said their teacher would be pleased if they scored well on a science test was half that of middle school boys...
...rugby union and soccer-mad South Africa, Aussie Rules remains an oddity. At the Potchefstroom training session, one school teacher supervising his students laughs when told that Aussie Rules teams have 22 players, 18 of whom are playing at any one time. "What kind of a sport has so many players?" says Robert Noah. "It's like a miracle to us that you can get so many people on the field...