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This is a massive shift and an opportunity to create the kind of engaged, critical and creative board that every company should have had in the first place. Search firms are aggressively steering nominating committees into new territory. Peter Crist, vice chairman of Korn/Ferry International, goes so far as to call the prototypical director, the distinguished elder statesman sitting on four or five boards, "an anachronism." The new ideal, Crist says, is a CFO 45 to 50 years old and very often a first-time director...
Turow is adamant that conclusions about the death penalty not be based upon limited responses, emotional or otherwise, to a single case. Possibly this was a part of why writing the novel, which is by its nature a somewhat abstracted exercise, contributed to his shift in opinion on the death penalty. By exploring the complicated emotions felt by the figures in Gandolph’s case, Turow was able to create a hypothetical situation in which to test his own feelings. It seems like a poster case for an increased reciprocity between the arts and politics...
Perhaps such floral provocations are part of the shift away from the cozy and toward the industrial in our homes. Or maybe as florists eschew mere arrangement and become "event planners," their work becomes more ambitious...
...Instead of dressing the women’s hockey team, suit up the members of the Crimson sports board. Our top players would be among those that cover hockey. Junior Timothy Jackson (of Toronto, Canada!) will play goal. I, sophomore Dave Weinfeld of Montreal, will play center every shift. Of course, with this scenario, the “Crimson” would probably lose just as badly as BU did to the real Harvard women’s hockey team, but for the sake of parity, it makes the most sense...
...initiative would achieve that by keeping the war option in the hands of the U.N. and encouraging the Sunni-dominated government to protect their own interests by cooperating with the U.N., sweeping Saddam aside if he refuses to go along. As the Saudis sees it, the shift in emphasis from threatening the stick of war to offering the carrot of protection stands a better chance of achieving a relatively bloodless transition of power in Baghdad that would win wider acceptance in the Arab world...