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...bullet-riddled SUV storms along a dirt track in Mozambique, spraying out dust and rocks like a vacuum cleaner in reverse. Hunched behind the steering wheel, Leonardo DiCaprio wrestles the vehicle while Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou grip the rear seat as if their lives depended on it, which, in this scene of director Edward Zwick's film, they do. "Faster!" shouts Zwick. "We need more speed." DiCaprio nods and backs up, and the bucking drive begins again...
...proposal. Says Rajat Gupta, former global managing director of McKinsey & Company and the first Indian-born CEO of a large U.S. multinational: "It's a gathering trend, but to say that we are somehow uniquely terrific at globalizing, I don't think the evidence supports that. There is no track record yet of Indian companies...
Although Delta is poised to fight the deal--and its hometown, Atlanta, is desperate to keep the company--a number of analysts are saying, Don't bother. Aviation consultant Patrick Murphy, who used to track airline competition in the Department of Transportation, says, "A US Airways--Delta merger is the start of a needed consolidation," and notes, "The low-cost carriers are now big enough to offer real alternatives to large network airlines. It will be good for consumers in the long run, making fewer, healthier carriers." Industry experts believe United or American will jump into the bidding for Delta...
...paper that were stacked and stapled together at the end of each week. They were called the "favor file." That was the way Baltimore's legendary Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.--later known as "Big Tommy," to distinguish him from his namesake son who also became mayor--kept track of who had been given a job or some other benevolence. The record always came in handy at election time. From the age of 13, his only daughter Nancy took charge of the desk in their home on Albemarle Street, where people came to tell their stories and ask for help...
...this selflessness and character that attracted Harvard to the Hawaii native in the first place.This leadership, the game of football, and academics were instilled in Fernandez by his father, who made a huge impact on his son’s athletic career. Though Fernandez excelled in wrestling and track in high school, football and academic aspirations were his top priorities.“My dad always wanted what was best for me,” Fernandez says. “He always thought [going to Harvard] was a possibility for me and always wanted me to shoot for the best...