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Phil South relaxes on the deck as twilight descends on the French Riviera. The 22-year-old technician from Chelmsford, England, and his girlfriend, Gillian Fell, 26, are aboard easyCruiseOne, a no-frills, budget liner on its maiden voyage from Nice, the start of a tour of the French and Italian coasts that stretches between St. Tropez and Portofino. "There's no way we could have gone on a cruise [before easyCruise]," says South. "This has opened barriers for people like us." Great; just as long as nobody expects luxury at low prices. Forget deck quoits, pink gins and white...
...costs have forced IBM to rationalize a business structure that has changed little in decades. Some of the 2,800 staff at IBM's customer service base at Greenock in Scotland are likely to go, as are many marketing and management jobs at the company's panregional headquarters in Tour Descartes, Paris. "Things that used to be formally done there will now be moved to the ladies and gentlemen in the field," says Fred McNeese, IBM's spokesman in Paris. "It's a pretty dramatic management shift for us in Europe." McNeese insists that the cuts will not be centered...
Anyone who saw his wife's handbag collection on MTV Cribs knows that hip-hop mogul RUSSELL SIMMONS has some serious coin. Now Simmons is teaming with financial guru SUZE ORMAN to teach cash-strapped young people how to manage their money. Their six-city tour starting this week in Detroit, "Get Your Money Right," will include seminars on credit scores, home ownership and car financing and guest appearances by Eminem and American Idol's Fantasia Barrino. Because nothing says down payment on a first home like a No. 1 album...
...recent Monday afternoon, he had to give a superior a tour of the District 14 building, and then rush out to a Red Sox game to oversee crowd control. By the time he returns to his brownstone and his wife and kids, it might be near midnight...
...other disciplines into the study of theirs, they run into a much larger problem: faculty. Departments hire professors who are the luminous minds in their respective fields, but except for some notable exceptions, that rarely means they can do anything more than discourse on their specialties. Indeed, a brief tour through the course catalog will show that many professors have a hard enough time teaching courses that aren’t arcane within their own disciplines, let alone classes that take a step even further out of professors’ comfort zones...