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...Sometimes what we call ambition is simply talent so great that it cannot contain itself. Mozart, Einstein, Paul McCartney and Bill Gates come to mind. But in other cases, ambition is just greed. Many of the famous folk in your story fit the latter category. Ken Taub St. James, New York...
...years have passed since Nigerian soldiers hanged activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others after protests targeting Shell's operations turned violent. Today, the company?which has long maintained that pollution from its oil operations in the Delta is due largely to sabotage?is still struggling to regain the locals' trust. Shell has a new strategy. After seeing millions of dollars from its contributions to development funds vanish in the hands of corrupt officials, Shell last month signed a four-year contract with village leaders that puts $7.7 million at their direct disposal. There is no shortage of worthy causes...
...Ken May THE JOURNEYMAN LEADER In nearly 24 years of working at FedEx, Ken May has had 13 assignments. Now that he is starting as CEO of FedEx Kinko's (FedEx bought Kinko's nearly two years ago), May, 45, won't reprint his résumé anytime soon. He plans to build 3,000 FedEx Kinko's stores over the next five years, including 1,000 overseas. Many of the new locations will be just 2,000 sq. ft., a third as big as most current outlets. That will cut costs, and the result, May hopes, will boost morale...
...Eliot, Theodore Roosevelt, and Norman Mailer. The Crimson has had FDR, JFK, Caspar Weinberger, etc. The Lampoon has had John Updike and even Elmer the Custodian. Past Presidents and Editors of the Yearbook include names such as George Feeney, Edward Kenyon, Roxane Harvey, Lee Smith, and Ken Meister—significant in their own right but not particularly etched in Harvard lore,†an excerpt from the yearbook’s website reads...
...film version. I was delighted. The four child actors did a splendid job. Corliss should lighten up, take a break from postmodern deconstructionism and take a trip through the magic wardrobe! Despite what Corliss thinks, there is indeed fire, passion and a lot of fun in the film. KEN FAST Derwent, Alta...