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...idea what it is or how far off. To find it, face it and live to write the story, we'll have to be resourceful, lucky, patient, flexible and observant, much as Lewis and Clark were. We'll have to row into the current of our ignorance, one stroke at a time...
...smaller firm endured a lot of teasing for changing its name to Accenture--a handle suggested by someone in the Oslo office. But now that its creative work on Enron's books has turned Arthur Andersen into a global pariah, the consulting firm's name change looks like a stroke of genius. And it's being emulated. PricewaterhouseCoopers--whose accounting work for K Mart and Tyco has been criticized--is spinning off PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting in August. And so eager is the new firm to separate from its parent that it has announced it will rename itself "Monday." Why Monday...
...They’re the backbone of our team,” said senior first varsity stroke Margaret Winterkorn-Meikle at the time. “The novices have been doing great and the second varsity has gone above what they might have expected of themselves. I’m really proud of them...
Forgiving the debt is not a stroke of charity—justice requires it. Many of the loans to Africa were illegitimate to begin with, used by rich countries to prop up corrupt, repressive or dictatorial regimes. South Africa’s apartheid regime accumulated more than $18 billion in foreign debt in the 15 years before it fell. Today, a democratic South Africa is left to pay its tormentors’ IOUs. By canceling the debt, we would both help Africa fight an epidemic and undo the mercantilist policies of the 1970s and 1980s that ravaged Africa?...
...nothing in the morning’s heat, and we really had a strong final,” junior stroke Sarah Psutka said, “It was great to rematch the teams we faced last week...