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...Harvard men’s hockey team reaffirmed itself as the ECAC’s leader in NHL-quality talent last weekend when four Crimson players were selected in the league’s 2001 entry draft...
Harvard also produced an ECAC-best four NHL draft selections in 2000. With juniors Dominic Moore and Brett Nowak and sophomores Rob Fried and Tyler Kolarik remaining on the team, the Crimson now boasts eight NHL draft picks on its 2001-02 roster...
...Pentagon is definitely guilty of a wimpy hierarchy, but they do what they're told to do by the Defense secretary and above. This is a lack of civilian leadership. Clinton was terrified of the military, because of the draft and the gays-in-the-military thing. But Bush has that necessary standing, and Cheney, Powell and Rumsfeld have the wherewithal and the knowledge to make big changes...
Those who do fall into that category do not get bonuses and must sit down with a supervisor to draft a plan for performing better. Salvaging such workers is only prudent, Accenture's Jensen notes, because "it is the 25th man off the bench who may win the baseball game for you." For bench warmers who can't sweeten their swings or improve their fielding, though, the next steps are a severance package and a swift exit from the roster...
...gain of American-style contracts, corporate accounting and securities law makes them valuable for negotiating international deals--either for companies or law firms in their homelands or for U.S. multinationals. With American firms representing clients who hold the purse strings in much of global commerce, they often get to draft the legal language that governs cross-border deals. That has made New York State law, in particular, a global gold standard, often invoked in a transaction even when neither party is based in the U.S. "It's become a neutral, third-party law," says Jeff Lewis, a partner...