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...Profits are up, and record numbers of Americans are at work. Yet the paradox of a market economy is that stock investors get scorched near the end of a robust expansion, while good times still roar. The reverse is true at the trough of a recession, when times are toughest...
Battle-tested with the toughest non-conference schedule in the Ivy League this year, the Harvard softball team was unable to keep up with No. 3 Oklahoma on its home field, and shutting down the Sooners' offense--the highest scoring in the nation--simply proved too tough of a task for the Crimson...
...campaign trail, baseball is a touchstone. Asked to name a hero, he names Ryan, who played for the Texas Rangers when Bush was the team's co-owner. The toughest challenge the Governor has faced? Firing manager Bobby Valentine. What mistake does he most regret? Trading hitting superstar Sammy Sosa to the Cubs, he said during the primaries, only half in jest. He cites his Rangers experience because it is when his professional career first flowered. "His relationship with the game gives you a big window into what he is all about," says Tom Scheiffer, the Rangers' current managing partner...
...toughest question to answer was, What happens to a man after four years alone? "Are the changes consciousness altering?" Hanks asks. "Or is he just the same guy, with his vision altered five degrees, and those five degrees make all the difference in the world? It's a bad analogy, but what do you learn as a cancer survivor? You've learned life is precious. Maybe you eat less red meat. It's not like you glow with an otherworldly wisdom...
...women like Breloh--who has found a solution. She has set up her own agency with some of her former clients, and it is expanding. In the long run, if companies don't adapt to changing times, they may find that their former female managers have become their toughest competitors...