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...with the range of vision so poor, the divers have to use what one rescue official referred to as the "Braille method" of search, physically feeling their way through the water. Capt. Bill Chandler of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department supervises the rescue divers, a group of 20 people from several locales, working in groups of three: one person in the water while the other two provide backup. The divers, he said, use sonar to identify potential submerged vehicles. They then carefully make their way to the target and identify what...
Despite training dive crews for a multitude of scenarios, Chandler said he's never seen anything of this magnitude. "We train for all various types of diving but we've never put all of them together in one spot like we have now," he said. "In all my years of diving experience, I never have experienced the conditions we're in now." Says Chandler, "I worry about the guys down there...
...journalists have a way of making heroes out of poor managers, as long as they lavishly publish our peerless prose. I've been guilty of it myself. I owe my early career to the largesse of Otis Chandler's Times-Mirror Co. and Alvah Chapman's Knight-Ridder. Believe me, those were swell times. And I watched some great journalism being done-but upstairs those companies were failing to defend their market positions and misunderstanding the future...
...influence as a business historian was such that some analysts refer to the period before Alfred Chandler published his works as "B.C." The "dean of management theory" was known for his accounts of how General Motors and other giant corporations were developed. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1977 book, The Visible Hand, which posited that very visible managers had replaced invisible market forces as the key factor shaping corporations...
MICHAEL CHABON'S NEW NOVEL is a Raymond Chandler-- style pulp mystery set in a bizarro alternate universe where (as supposedly really almost happened) Alaska, not Israel, was designated as the Jewish homeland. Your hero is Meyer Landsman, a drunk and divorced detective working the case of a murdered drug-addicted Hasidic chess prodigy. As premises go, this one is half-baked, hard-boiled and frozen solid all at the same time...