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...immerse himself in the culture of the Cambridge crew, De Rond embedded with them for seven months last year, training full-time with the 39 hopefuls vying for an oar in the boat. That meant very early mornings and punishing physical exertion, often in filthy weather. He came away with more than the usual platitudes about teamwork and persistence. Like high-level executive teams, Oxbridge rowing crews operate in stressful, pressure-cooker environments. Both are made up of ambitious players from diverse backgrounds whose personalities often have edges as sharp as their talents...
...perhaps some of Denmark's success has to be chalked up to, well, Danishness. And there's no guarantee that it will continue. Business leaders say they face worsening labor shortages and can't attract skilled foreigners to a country that has such high taxes (not to mention dreary weather and an incomprehensible language). But the fact that Denmark has combined a dynamic economy with a tax burden almost double that of the U.S. gives the lie to many economic arguments made over the past quarter-century. There's more than one way, it turns out, to be competitive...
...school in Vienna, Brabeck traveled to Pakistan with a group of friends to climb Tirich Mir, the highest peak in the Hindu Kush. They drove through Turkey and Afghanistan in a secondhand van and slept in tents their mothers had sewn. The expedition turned into a disaster. In bad weather two of the team, including Thomassen, fell off an ice wall to their deaths. Brabeck survived because he had returned to base camp the day before the tragedy: there had been only enough food for two, and he lost the poker game that had decided which of the three would...
...work in practice. That's another lesson the mountains taught him. "You learn very early on that you're better off working in a team," Brabeck says. "It's how you'll survive. There's nothing worse than having a weak team on the mountain." That, and unforeseen bad weather...
Even a month ago, the global economy seemed poised to weather the U.S. sub-prime crisis with relative aplomb. But, suddenly, something approaching panic has gripped the world's financial community. The headlines are grim. The U.S. housing slump is worsening. Banking giants such as Merrill Lynch and Citigroup are posting record losses. The U.S. dollar is getting pounded by the British pound - and virtually every other currency. Oil has run up as high as $98 per bbl., and gold - the traditional doomsday investment - has topped $800, its highest level since the early 1980s...