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Berry's five-year tenure at HDS came after a lifetime in the foodservice industry. Beginning at age 13, when he started working at a resort in his home state of New Hampshire, Berry used what subordinates and superiors alike describe as superb interpersonal skills to advance within the field...
...girdle buyer at Macy's to head cosmetics giant Max Factor. In 1986 she masterminded a hostile buyout at Warnaco and took the company public in 1991. As a mogul, she helicopters from her Park Avenue headquarters to a mansion in the Hamptons, New York's summer-resort community. As a manager, Wachner once made a FORTUNE roster of "Toughest Bosses" for her low tolerance for underperformers. "You'd better start firing people," the magazine quoted her telling a newly arrived executive, "so they'll understand you're serious...
...equals of the apparatchiks they replaced in enriching themselves at public expense. Very quickly, the word democrat became synonymous with incompetent and corrupt. Ask anyone on the streets of Moscow what they think of Russian democracy today and the most likely answer will be "What democracy?" Western diplomats may resort to sophistry in explaining how Yeltsin remains the country's best democratic hope, but few Russians have any illusions now about Yeltsin, who is known, not quite accurately, as their first "popularly elected" President. To them he seems to have reverted to his former role as an imperious, provincial party...
Also, the scientists working at the string of observatories there have made the site into "a bit of a resort" according to Kirshner...
...contemporary social and political issues, but I also know that he is a distinguished scholar who is happy to discuss his opinions with interested students. Such discussion is precisely why it is valuable to have such a superb faculty; if students ignore their access to that resource and resort to demagoguery and sloganeering, why pay Harvard's high tuition...