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From pitching deals in a strip club to stuffing her pants with socks, Carly Fiorina has shown that she can hold her own in the male-dominated world of business. Fiorina, who served as chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard before her controversial firing in 2005 and is rumored to have political aspirations, came to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) yesterday to speak about her new book, “Tough Choices: A Memoir.” Fiorina, the first female CEO of a Fortune 20 company, was named the most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine...
Says one first-year male student, “I don’t mean to sound racist, but they’re all old white men....They all look the same to me; I can’t tell them apart...
...recent proliferation of competitors. The company he works for employs twelve langurs, including two that he was using to guard our building last week: Babby, an 8-year-old female, her 4-month-old baby playing at her feet, and Ramu, a particularly fierce looking 10-year-old male. "If they hit you with their tail it will break the skin," said Khan, matter-of-factly. I didn't get close enough to test his claim...
...India's leading primatologists. Malik has studied monkeys for more than two decades and estimates there are now 5,000 monkeys in Delhi. Seven years ago she came up with a plan to create a reserve for the city's monkeys and begin a program of sterilization for selected male monkeys. But she says the city fumbled those plans and instead started trapping monkeys and caging them to create the impression they were doing something. (You can read her story at primatesinperil.blogspot.com). Malik says using langurs is "stupid." The smaller monkeys may be scared of langurs but they will simply...
DIED. Gerry Studds, 69, former Democratic Representative from Massachusetts and the first openly gay member of Congress, whom the House censured in 1983 for having had an affair with a 17-year-old male page; of complications from a blood clot in his lung; in Boston. After surviving the sex scandal, Studds was elected to several more terms, and in 1996 Congress named a national marine sanctuary after him in recognition of his environmental work...