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...Institute of Politics (IOP) is expected to name its first full-time director of the new millennium today, several sources closely involved with the search process confirmed yesterday...
...differing styles of father and son. The father is reclusive, cordial, traditional and lives in the same house he bought for $13,000 in the 1960s. Richard likes junk food, can be blunt with subordinates, is building a lavish mansion and flew Whitney Houston to Hong Kong for his millennium party. (One trait the duo share is a penchant for being seen with beautiful women; Ka-shing is a widower, and Richard has never married.) When asked which businessman he admires most, Richard mentions not Dad but Sony's co-founder Akio Morita--and he makes clear that questions about...
Take Philtre d'Amour, for example. Touted by Guerlain as a limited-edition scent for the first year of the millennium, it will be gone at the end of 2000. Like its limited-edition forerunners, Guerlinade, Belle Epoque and Guet-Apens--all released by Guerlain in the past two years--it is unlikely to have a profound effect on the company's bottom line, neither demanding excessive advertising nor generating vast sales...
...leader ought to do. He sets an example. Only by apology on one side and forgiveness on the other--acts of moral clarification and of collaboration--can the dead weight of the past be lifted. The apology was an admirable way for an old Pope to start a new millennium...
...research, to the useless months of the early fall when standardized tests, job applications and extracurriculars had us asking, "Thesis? What thesis?" It never goes away, though, and avoiding one's advisor in the department office can work for only so long. By the turn of the faux millennium, a helpful kind of panic had set in, with fewer than four months before D-day and much work still to be done...