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...tightly with status that when their circumstances change, they can mutate into something unrecognizable to their closest friends--or interviewers." Or perhaps the key is that, as the authors of the article on Welch that finally ran in HBR point out, "no CEO exerted a more magnetic pull on the media than Jack Welch...
...trailer for its movie The Animal in front of Universal's The Mummy Returns, which promised to be a hit. Fearing a dangerous precedent, other studios complained, and Sony promised not to do it again. And after a dispute with New Line, theater chain Regal Cinemas threatened to pull trailers for the studio's The Lord of the Rings. "It's a dirty, horrible part of the business," says a marketing executive. "It's about elbow grease and relationships...
...camera dangling round my neck. I'm a digital guy who never wants to deal with a drugstore clerk smirking at my prints in the back room again. If I encounter something picturesque--say, a grizzly chasing campers in front of a charming waterfall--my dream is to casually pull from my shirt pocket a digital camera cool enough to elicit gasps of awe from the campers and, if possible, from the bear...
Then, after falling behind 5-4 in the seond set, Naqushbandi managed to pull out the second set in another tiebreak, winning 7-6, 7-6 and completing the singles sweep...
...Pull back the saris on the cover of Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters and enter an unknown world. The book is packaged like so many other novels by Indian and Indian-American authors. It masquerades as another example of literary “chutneyfication,” an unthreatening dose of the exotic for the American reading palate. But this Berkeley professor’s latest novel is anything but a typical tale of immigration. Only its costume evokes the popular success of that genre...