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Brown goaltender Pam Dreyer doesn’t make many mistakes, but when she does, the opposition had better take advantage. When Botterill passed the puck, Dreyer was fooled. In switching her attention from Botterill at her right to Schroyer in front, she had left a large gap to her right. Schroyer keyed in on the target and did not miss...
...Mary Landrieu and state election commissioner Suzanne Terrell. The Republicans' strategy: show how close Terrell is to Bush. The Democrats' approach: pretty much the same. That's right, despite the new tough talk from the party's presidential wannabes, the Democrats' best strategy right now is to narrow the gap with Bush, maybe pretend there's no daylight...
...climbs depends on how well she meets her latest challenge: closing the credibility gap at financial-services giant Citigroup, after government inquiries put a cloud over the firm's reputation--and its stock. Krawcheck was hired in October from the independent stock-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein (where she was CEO) to be Citi's designated savior. Citigroup's proud CEO, Sanford Weill, personally wooed her, reorganizing a large chunk of Citi around her. Krawcheck is now CEO of a reconstituted Smith Barney, which encompasses Citi's stock-research and retail-brokerage operations...
...governmental barriers to free-market competition at the domestic corporate level. "You can clean up the banks' balance sheets all you want," says James Kondo, a consultant at McKinsey & Co. who helped produce a recent study that remains one of the most comprehensive looks yet at Japan's productivity gap. "But until you change the environments companies operate in, the same problems are going to keep returning. Right now, people are just treating the symptoms." Because Japan's productivity woes are largely the result of misguided or obsolete policy decisions, he argues, a committed reform movement could bring a quick...
...Gap in Harvard Square saw an increase from last year in both after-Thanksgiving shoppers and sales, with a greater proportion of shoppers actually making purchases in the store, according to a sales clerk...