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...want to be in the Tour. What does it really take to get there? Jonathan James Anger MINNEAPOLIS...
...takes a lot of hard work, a lot of natural talent. I'm biased, but I think the Tour de France is the hardest sporting event in the world. It takes a huge amount of sacrifice to say, I think I want to do the hardest thing in the world...
...most lines. Small teams promote ownership, and there are no individual supervisors, which cuts out a hierarchical layer. To avoid boredom, each employee is required to know the job ahead of him and behind him on the line and rotates throughout the week. "People come here for a tour and can't believe how little the assembly line is and how the guys are doing so many jobs," says Buell. And when it comes to promoting Buell products at demo days or rallies, plant operators show up alongside the marketing folk. "Who better to sell the product than the employee...
...become one of the first big-name directors to challenge traditional notions of film distribution. Such munificence might be meaningful were the film anything more than a self-congratulatory vanity project. The documentary centers on the “Slacker Uprising,” Moore’s 2004 tour of college campuses in which he encouraged unregistered voters in battleground states to cast a ballot. With a host of celebrity friends, including R.E.M., Roseanne Barr, and Viggo Mortensen, Moore distributed ramen noodles and clean underwear to consistent nonvoters in the hopes that their support would sway the election against...
...harrowing story. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the George Polk award, Filkins, who joined The Times in 2001 after reporting in Afghanistan for The Los Angeles Times, spoke at Harvard Book Store last night to an overflowing room. His talk was part of a promotional tour for his new book “The Forever War,” an account of his experiences reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade. Filkins, a Cambridge resident, was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy last year...