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In high school Twain balanced homework and a counter job at McDonald's--"I learned tons about the meaning of service there," she says enthusiastically--with singing in an '80s-rock cover band. After high school she moved to Toronto and worked as a secretary while hopping from band to...
Now that he's also a film director (Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, which opens Friday), he gives long, well-thought-out answers. "We just kept cutting the budget until it wasn't a major risk for the studios," he says about Adaptation, an unconventional adaptation of New Yorker writer...
Terrorism is like a balloon: Squeeze one end, and it expands at the other. As the U.S. and other governments harden security around military facilities, diplomatic posts, key businesses and transportation nodes, terrorist operatives look for targets that are not so well protected. CIA interrogators questioning Omar al-Faruq, the...
That all changed earlier this year when Scarpa learned about IE-Engine, a privately held software firm based in Waltham, Mass., that promised to make it easier and cheaper to buy health insurance. IE-Engine set up a pilot program that helped ABB streamline its health-care providers in North...
“Obviously I had some failures and some successes,” Darst says. “But I learned a lot of things that you do and don’t do, and I definitely learned how to manage people in getting things done.?...