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...this: A survey by Starwood Hotels & Resorts showed that 82% of CEOS admit to cheating at golf. The same percentage hate others who do the same. "We're in a period of corporate Watergate, and Nixons are popping up all over," says John Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas. Qualified executives are turning down CEO offers out of fear they might be taking the helm of a firm about to crumble under some new accounting fraud, impeding the searches of even the cleanest firms. Among those looking for a new CEO are Gap and J. Crew...
...Gray clouds move as low as smoke over the treetops at Lolo Pass. The ground is white. The day is June 10. It has been snowing for the past four days in the Bitterroot Mountains. Wayne Fairchild is getting worried about our trek over the Lolo Trail--95 miles from Lolo, Mont., to Weippe in Idaho, across some of the most rugged country in the West. Lewis and Clark were nearly defeated 200 years ago by snowstorms on the Lolo--the name apparently comes from Lawrence, a French-Canadian trapper killed by a grizzly in the area in the 1850s...
...Finally, it is Asai sensei's time to talk. He wears a gray business suit and glasses and has thinning gray hair. He doesn't quote scriptures or recite Buddhist chants. His short speech is delivered in warm, avuncular, soothing tones. Yet his words conjure up pictures of doom as he talks about last year's terrorist attacks on the U.S., about al-Qaeda and the threat of dirty bombs. "A big country like America couldn't even crush al-Qaeda completely," he says. "Because of this technology, these dirty bombs, even a small group can ruin America...
...striking break with tradition on a day characterized by centuries-old ritual, the gray clouds that had been gathering all morning let loose with a downpour about a half-hour into the ceremony. The rain continued unabated until a few minutes before the program ended, when it slowed to a drizzle...
...year-old Mattapan resident Iran Gray was killed in an early-morning shooting outside the Rhythm and Spice Restaurant in Central Square in April. Two months later, the police have made no arrests related to the shooting...