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...know these guys? By day, mild-mannered and polite. By baseball game, you’d hardly know ’em. But their outburst prompts a precious episode: a love-hate triangle between the Marlboro Mob, a lone Angels fan—and the Boy Scouts. It’s Jamboree time, and the troops are out in force, seas of brown in orange stands. The Marlboro Mob moves from chanting Oriole and Angel numbers to chanting troop numbers...
...value of the lone wolf has fallen in direct proportion to the rising complexity of doing business on a global scale. No one can create or market a product alone anymore, so interrelatedness is a necessity. To foster it, companies have shifted how they evaluate and reward people. Increasingly, they reward the pack. "We think the era of individual heroics is over," declares Kathleen Donovan, Pfizer's vice president of HR for U.S. pharmaceuticals. It ended for the drug giant as the company grew rapidly in the '90s and began taking on vastly more complicated--medically, socially and politically--diseases...
Even on Wall Street, the natural habitat of the lone wolf, it's harder to run solo. "On Wall Street, aggression was equated with sales," observes Larry Fraser of Management & Capital Partners, consultants in hiring and organizational effectiveness. "But the aggression now prevalent on Wall Street is institutional aggressiveness in the market and a downward trend in individual success at any cost." Ten years ago, he notes, 10 of the top 15 institutional brokers on the Street paid employees by commission. Five years ago, that number was down to five. In the first quarter of this year, the last holdout...
...area, the ever-expanding Loft, a spot popular with chuppies, is a study in mixed metaphors. Its TV-lined industrial interior sports metal-tube chairs inspired by traditional Chinese designs, and a sizable dance floor. Go through the small art gallery to reach a tented beer garden where a lone cellist plays on a balcony, occasionally obscured by smoke from the barbecue. A couple of caveats: some regulars complain the sound system needs an overhaul, and the crowds tend to move on by midnight. But if beer and kebabs are your thing, call (86-10) 6501-7501. Another notable...
...Soon after the first shootings, rebels attack army camps at Waripora Magam and Zachaldar in Kupwara. Five soldiers, members of the 21 and 24 Rashtriya Rifles, are killed and 13 more wounded. The Lashkar-i-Tayyaba admits carrying out the assaults, which it says were the work of a lone militiaman. Their man, it adds, although intending to die, was unscathed in both. By the end of the day, the death toll across Kashmir is up to a reported 42. A spokesman for the Indian Border Security Force says it would have been a lot higher but for the arrest...