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...talking a very big game. The 34-year-old founder and ceo of sportswearmaker Airness is explaining his goal of boosting his company's 2005 sales of $150 million - mostly in France - to rival global giant Nike's some $14 billion. Sound a touch fanciful? Don't tell Koné. "You know where Puma was five years ago? Deeply troubled," Koné says of the now-thriving German-American sportswear group, whose own sales last year exceeded $2 billion. "And six years ago, Airness scarcely existed. We didn't get this far this fast worrying about what we supposedly...
...something good." Hess, who co-wrote the film with his wife Jerusha and Mike White, had never worked with a celebrity before, and when it came time to shoot, "I kind of beat around the bush if I wanted to change something. But Jack was just like, 'Hess, dude, tell me what you want.'" Says White: "He's not a Jim Carrey. He's not looking to improvise, and he finds it annoying when people say, 'Then you'll come in and do your Jack Black thing!' He wants real direction, he just wants to be able to contribute...
...absolutely wiped out when just at lunchtime I got a call from someone I had known slightly who was on the Board of Overseers and he says, ‘We’ve just chosen Derek Bok to be the president, but I can’t tell you you’ve got to find it out for yourself,’” Rosenthal recalls. “I sure don’t want to do that again.”In 1993, he became editor of The New York Times Magazine where he presided...
...draw families back into the schools.Sybil Knight, the principal of the system’s only high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, summed up the feelings of most participants toward the end, saying, “We don’t need an exact number to tell us about declining enrollment. The numbers are down and we’ve got to do something about it.—Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...from out of town," the star of An Inconvenient Truth grew irate, accusing the President of ignoring his calls on his cell phone. "You think I don't know what's going on when it only rings twice before the message?" the erstwhile Senator said. "Sometimes I can't tell if we're even friends anymore...