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...Coming The question at the heart of the fraud trial of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling involves the men's awareness of Enron's accounting and financial manipulations?a minefield that Sherron Watkins, one of TIME's 2003 Persons of the Year, recognized long before the company collapsed...
...ever depicted minor league baseball, there is no guy in the back strumming a guitar or playing a harmonica. Fortunately for the hearing-impaired, there is always some kind of slapstick comedy playing at a volume between blaring and deafening. Secondly, trying to navigate your way through the human minefield to the bathroom located in the back of the bus is more difficult than finding the Holy Grail. When the personal lights go out and guys start stretching out under seats, across aisles or anywhere else they can escape their small cramped seats, things get interesting. At this time...
...difference in the lives of first-years; every upperclassman has a story to tell about Harvard’s daunting course catalogue, its competitive atmosphere, or its formidable expectations, and Fellows would be in a unique position to use their experience and training to help first-years navigate the minefield that Harvard can sometimes...
...attending the three-day course, held monthly at the cozy medieval Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, it can feel like they are, quite literally, learning to walk all over again. Everyday situations such as eating dinner become a minefield of possible faux pas. But within an hour Mather has them properly scooping their soup ("Away from yourself, so as not to splash the tie") and daintily adding salt on the side, rather than dousing the entire dish ("Do you think you're in a trucker's caf?...
...shop in North America, Japan and India. For the men attending the three-day course, held monthly at the cozy medieval Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, it can feel like they are, quite literally, learning to walk all over again. Everyday situations such as eating dinner become a minefield of possible faux pas. But within an hour Mather has them properly scooping their soup ("Away from yourself, so as not to splash the tie") and daintily adding salt on the side, rather than dousing the entire dish ("Do you think you're in a trucker's café?"). The gentlemen...