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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This Willie Sutton approach is not easy. The challenges of international business--dealing with linguistic and cultural differences, foreign-exchange volatility and unfamiliar government regulations--can frustrate even a mighty multinational. "Couple all that with the fact we have few resources to draw on for support, and you get the idea of what we have to go through," notes Ellenberger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exporting to Survive | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...Hutchinson's personal life has raised eyebrows. The Baptist minister left his wife in 1999. Within a year he had married a younger former staff member. The issue will probably not be decisive - Bill Clinton's Arkansas is not unfamiliar with political peccadilloes - but it is not helping Hutchinson, even as he sounds the familiar refrain that voters should judge him on the totality of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family Business | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...first day at Harvard: Pre-frosh weekend, Spring 2000. Walking from Annenberg on my own, not sure what to do next in this unfamiliar and heady environment, I happened upon a gate with a plaque bearing familiar words: “I came into this Country, where I found a new World and new manners, at which my heart rose.” I stood there for a moment, smiling, feeling a kinship with the author, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, America’s first English-speaking poet...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Quinn, | Title: Misinterpreting Bradstreet | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...Harvard sailing team began its new season in a slightly unfamiliar place...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rebuilding Year Begins for Sailing | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

Feinberg is not the first person you would pick to comfort the aggrieved. He has a jagged intellect that does not easily abide dissent; he is a leading candidate for the title of World's Most Competitive Human; he is completely unfamiliar with hushed, conciliatory tones (even in intimate moments, his thick Boston accent and habit of applying verbal italics to every third word make Feinberg sound as if he is in the midst of a perpetual rant). He is, not surprisingly, a very successful lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Special Master: Holding the Checkbook | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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