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...once suffered the freakiest of injuries, getting his knee shattered by a brick thrown from an overpass through the windshield of his car onto a highway where he was driving with his family...
...Frankly, the decision was made to sign the modified agreement because the College threatened that we would be thrown out of the building, lose student group status and lose our staff support if we did not sign the agreement they presented," Garland says. "Their deadline was two days before students were allowed back on campus for the fall semester. Faced with their responsibility to communities and the near-impossibility of winning a battle with Harvard, [the PBHA Board of Trustees] signed the Agreement in September...
...only about getting big, fast. Sooner or later, they thought, the big brands like Lauder, Lancome and Chanel would come on board. "The start-ups' lack of knowledge was painful," says Allan Mottus, an analyst who consulted for several beauty sites. "They should have taken their $50 million and thrown a big party rather than invest in a market where they couldn't sell 70% of the products...
...none of us really wants our President, Bill Clinton, to change even one iota. No one wants to see him toiling monastically on his memoirs or with a wrench in his hand, building low-income housing for Habitat for Humanity. We expect and desire him, once he's thrown off the trammels of the presidency, to become the great Casanova (at least the great Bubbanova) of the Western world (at least the West Coast), noshing on marzipan as he steeps with a bevy of hot-tub hootchies in his Malibu compound...
...come up with a survival plan. He shed the rubber, paper and other businesses in favor of a new focus: wireless telecom. As a junior exec in charge of the mobile-phones division, Ollila, a former banker with a master's degree from the London School of Economics, had thrown his support behind an emerging digital network standard known as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), a gamble that has paid off handsomely. Today GSM rules more than half the wireless world, and Nokia's sales of GSM phones account for most of its 30% global market share. Nokia...