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...latter, the show could have been Hardball. At times bin Laden attacked Bush in language straight from the presidential campaign. "Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you," he said, denying the President's repeated charge that Islamic extremists "hate freedom." Bin Laden riposted, "Let him tell us then why did we not attack Sweden." He likened Bush and his father to Middle Eastern despots who hand down power to their children. And in a dig described by one U.S. official as "more personal" than the criticisms leveled in previous bin Laden tapes, he taunted Bush with...
...displays of Indian folklore. In the third panel of the narrative's triptych, we travel back to 1910, when the British came to the area to exploit its mines and miners. That one of them, caught up in the revolution, was Eric's grandfather bears out the traditionalist's truth that time moves not forward, but around...
...mind, it's just what's there," he says. "I must say, I pride myself on the fact that I don't think anybody can find a political agenda, a moral agenda. I insist that I am objective." Up to a point, that is--he'll bend the truth for the sake of a good line. "I had a groupie at the end deliver what I thought was a quite cogent remark," he recalls. "'Every girl wants to f___ a star. Every girl.' My daughter said, 'Nobody talks like that, Dad.'" This time his grin is a little lupine...
Like practically any self-respecting politician, most CEOs are rarely willing to admit they have made a mistake. Better to blame something outside their control--the economy, changing tastes, even the weather--than take responsibility for a bad earnings report or missed sales forecast. But the truth is that corporate America has more than its fair share of management failures, setting aside cases of fraud or accounting shenanigans. In fact, despite the unique circumstances in different industries, companies tend to stumble for the same insidious reasons--reasons that often flow from the egoistic pursuit of scale or an unwillingness...
Every company pays lip service to customer service, but anyone who has endured an airline's phone-support hell or talked to a clueless sales clerk in an electronics store knows the truth. In many cases, the customer comes dead last. A company like Toys "R" Us may blame Wal-Mart for destroying its core toy business, but "[nobody's] customers just walk away; they will put up with a lot of stuff," says business strategist Fred Wiersema. "By the time they switch, they are really...