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...still think back upon a happier economic time for instruction: prosperous, distant 2005. In that year, two executives of the multi-national manufacturing firm Tyco received prison sentences for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company for various personal purposes—most infamously, former chief executive officer L. Dennis Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain. These sentences—ranging from 8 1/3 to 25 years of incarceration—were considered forceful messages to other executives tempted to skim off their company’s bottom line. Yet Kozlowski and CFO Mark H. Swartz...
...lecture was the penultimate event of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies “Mexican Studies Program.” The program features events and lectures that explore the Mexican culture. The event was moderated by Alfredo Corchado, a Nieman Foundation fellow and the Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News. Suros said that in the past Mexicans were prejudiced against the consumption of tequila. “The images that we have are the ranchero, the guy in the cantina, guys getting drunk and singing with a bottle of tequila,” Suros said...
...security picks. The top three members of that team certainly fit the description. In Hillary Clinton, Obama is getting a Secretary of State who battled him to the bitter end of a Democratic primary season focused largely on the question of who was better equipped to be Commander in Chief. In bringing in retired Marine general James Jones as his National Security Adviser and retaining Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Obama is turning to two men who might have seemed more obvious choices had John McCain won the White House. And all three were on the opposite side from Obama...
...making all this work is most likely to be the man who is the least familiar of the triumvirate. Jones, the 6-ft. 5-in. retired general who will be the chief conduit of foreign policy advice to the new President, was the first Marine to serve as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and has an Eisenhower-like appeal to both parties. But he was not part of Obama's circle of campaign advisers and reportedly resisted initial overtures to take the job, fearing he could get caught in the kind of infighting that Rice faced when she was Bush...
...Floridian. When Bush left office as Florida's governor last year, he insisted he wasn't interested in running for President, Senator or any other job that meant wading into the Beltway cesspool. And there was also the widely held notion that Bush, like Rudy Giuliani and other domineering chief executives, wasn't especially well cut out for the compromise and deliberate pace of the congressional sandbox...