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...however, see a lack of fire. After a few disappointing quarters, some product misfires and layoffs that cut 60,000 employees, the company had become "gun-shy," Zander says. When he arrived in January 2004, he set out to change Motorola from the inside out--turning an engineer's company into a design powerhouse, an American icon into a global player and Motorola's conservative culture into one that embraces risk. As Zander puts it, "You gotta celebrate taking a swing...
...Ruggiero ’02-’04 and Nicole Corriero ’05 would have graduated, and Julie Chu, now a senior, would probably be taking the year off for her second Olympics with the U.S. National Team. Now that time has come, and another big gun, sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt—last year’s ECAC Rookie of the Year—has also been named to the current Canadian National Team. On the defensive side of the ice, junior Caitlin Cahow impressed so much with her effort last year that she earned an invitation...
...Anne Lauvergeon had been given the choice, the French nuclear-energy company she heads would have been the next state-owned firm slated for partial privatization. Earlier this year, she and her colleagues at Paris-based Areva jumped the gun by preparing all the official paperwork for a public offering, and lobbied the government hard to be next in line. Her insistence ruffled some feathers, especially in the Finance Ministry, according to people familiar with the behind-the-scenes maneuvering. And late last month, she officially lost her battle when Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and Finance Minister Thierry Breton...
...empty wing of his parents' home. The situation is ripe for satire, but Gordimer has more serious plans. As Paul struggles to recover, his country and his family fall apart. High-stakes battles over corruption and development rage on without him. As in A Guest of Honour, The House Gun and most of her 11 other novels, Gordimer weaves together big national issues and small personal crises. Yet this time she also uses local vocabularies, incomplete sentences and elliptical syntax that some readers may find annoying (helpfully, she appends a glossary of indigenous language terms). Get used to it. Among...
...year coach Guy Gadowsky has improved during his tenure. In last year’s game at the Bright Center, Princeton scored six goals. “They have a really explosive offense,” Reese said. “We look for more of a run-and-gun system against them. It’s a matter of being able to play solid defense and take advantage of mistakes they make.” The Princeton attack will test the two freshman blueliners on the ice for Harvard, but last Saturday’s game against Dartmouth...