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...late 2004, when management guru Tom Peters cast off the consulting and training company that bore his name, the folks left behind were pretty scared. Yet the partners of the renamed Bluepoint Leadership Development say that they are better managed without the world-famous management consultant and author of In Search of Excellence and Re-imagine! than with him: higher revenues, doubled profitability, loyalty from old clients and a roster of new ones like Starbucks, DHL and GE. "Fortune called Tom Peters the Ur-guru of management," says Bluepoint partner David Parks, "but apparently not when it comes to running...
...recent Oscar-winning weepies are descendants of the domestic melodramas of the '30s and '40s, with Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo cast as a strong-willed woman censured by a straitlaced society. In the past 20 years, when women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...
...realities of such a terrifying illness. Bergman fits in nicely with the rest of Field’s oeuvre—emotional women on the brink of considerable change. There is no detail omitted in this journal of a woman’s death, and we must watch the cast deal with home nurses, morphine, chemotherapy, and excessive vomiting. The horrifying and graphic scenes of illness are juxtaposed with comedy that sometimes works to raise the mood—but usually comes off as contrived. Each of the four adult children copes with the mother’s death differently...
...Ever since the 2000 Presidential election, G.O.P. officials around the country have argued that Democrats are benefiting from votes cast by those with inadequate identification, felons or persons forging signatures on absentee ballots. Democrats have called this charge a Republican attempt to win elections by suppressing tallies of eligible voters...
...internal strife is often cast as a battle between Hamas and Fatah, but the reality is more complex, involving also clan battles, crime syndicates and old feuds. In the wake of the Mecca agreement that led to the unity talks, those old fissures are widening and new ones forming. Abbas' Sunday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rubbed a number of senior Fatah people the wrong way. Afterwards, at a meeting of Fatah's Central Committee, according to a Committee member who was in attendance, Abbas was fiercely criticized for "engaging in a public relations stunt" and accused...