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Not long ago, the top managers and 80,000 employees at the world's largest airline were barely on speaking terms. The only time they really talked was over the bargaining table. But in a classroom dotted with inspirational posters (JUST BECAUSE THE SITUATION IS TENSE ... YOU DON'T HAVE...
To hear Vladimir Putin tell it, he learned something about Chechnya last week. After a surprise helicopter tour of the breakaway republic, the Russian President returned to Moscow and informed his Cabinet that the capital, Grozny, looked "horrible." He apparently didn't mention that it looks that way because the...
But, as we have learned recently, there is another reason why imperialism carries the seeds of its own failure. Grand designs to remake nations are dreamed up in the groves of academe and the corridors of power. They are implemented, however, by young men (and women, too, nowadays) who are...
Kerry's verbal meanderings are partly a reflection of a mind that sees complexity in almost every issue. The son of a diplomat, educated partly in boarding schools in Europe, Kerry learned to look at current affairs from multiple perspectives. Says an adviser: "It's not like he's trying...
So perhaps Pitt cares about craft after all? "Talking about acting is for civilians," says O'Toole, who believes that Pitt is significantly underrated. "Brad's a modest man and a good-natured man and a proper man. And he approaches his acting with such style. If he were more...