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...Ackermann is under fire for his role at Mannesmann, but he’s won praise for his running of Deutsche Bank pro • Took a hatchet to bloated costs • Revamped board structure • Dumped stake in dozens of firms con • Clashed with German tradition • Not as profitable as key rivals • Faces possible five-year prison term if convicted...
...country that loves his movies can't be all bad. So WOODY ALLEN is appearing--sans fee--in a promotional video from the French Government Tourist Office urging Americans to bury the hatchet. He says the two nations should put their differences behind them so, among other things, he doesn't "have to freedom-kiss my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her." The French...
...movie is based on a book by Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, hardly a Giuliani ally, which fed suspicion that it might be a hatchet job. Yes, it makes Giuliani look like a jerk, but that's both an insult and a compliment. You boo Rudy the jerk when he ends his marriage via a press conference, but you cheer Rudy the jerk when he pushes around insider traders and Mob bosses. Giuliani's philosophy was that it takes a tough guy to run a tough city. If that doesn't always come across prettily on screen, that...
...changed considerably in the past 100 years (for one thing, there’s no smoking during presidential deliberations), and continues to change at what seems like an accelerating rate. Technology guru Matt MacInnis ’02 was our first (extremely) openly gay president in 128 years. Hatchet-man extraordinaire Imtiyaz H. “Don’t tell anyone my middle name is Hussain!” Delawala ’03 is about to finish his tenure as our first-ever non-white president. And three weeks ago, I and the other outgoing 129th executives...
Welcome to the workplace of the jobless recovery, where keeping your position means that your In box swells, your pay and benefits shrink, and bathroom amenities don't magically appear. In an office haunted by the ghosts of laid-off employees, those workers who dodged the hatchet aren't necessarily the lucky ones. They must excel at their old jobs to avoid still looming staff cuts and must also juggle extra, unfamiliar duties...