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WORD OF HONOR by Nelson DeMille Warner; 518 pages...
...retain a prominent local distributor, Hattori. But Gillette blundered by abandoning its local agent after a few years. Japanese retailers viewed Gillette's move as arrogant, and the firm was unable to sell its products on its own. Says Jay Gwynne, president of the consumer health-products division of Warner-Lambert, which owns Schick: "To try to eliminate the Japanese middleman is the quickest way to commit suicide." Schick's single-blade stainless-steel razor was judged superior to Feather's double-blade carbon one, and Schick's razor became the country's best seller...
...BSA’s career fair featured only five employers in 2002 and was nonexistent in 2003, but Adjah revived the event last October, drawing 30 recruiters—including Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, and Sony...
...Warner, who has the aquiline look and formal bearing that sometimes seem right out of Henry Clay's era, has made no secret of his discomfort over the fact that he would even have to cast a vote on the filibuster. "I've been here 27 years," he said. "I have the greatest respect for this institution and how it's served this country all these years." Democratic leader Harry Reid said he had heard private misgivings about the wisdom of changing Senate tradition even from Republicans who publicly pledged to support Frist on the vote...
That a showdown was not more easily avoided reflects a generational shift under way in the Senate, and the fact that the once insular institution has become more reflective of the polarized political landscape around it. Moderates, of either party, are few. Traditionalists like Warner have increasingly been supplanted by a younger generation of Republican Senators, most of whom have arrived there by way of the more autocratic House, where on most questions it doesn't make any difference to the outcome whether the Democrats even show up to vote. In the 2004 election, six of the seven Republican freshmen...