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Robert S. Kaplan, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs and a professor at Harvard Business School, served as interim CEO after El-Erian stepped down late last year...
...Much of this can be attributed to the slowly loosening but still stifling vice grip of Confucianism. While Buddha and Jesus battle over the eternal souls of the Korean faithful, neither the Enlightened One nor the Anointed One has the same influence that Confucius does over people’s daily lives. The man of many proverbs has his hand in it all, from the relentless work ethic that keeps my students in school until 10 p.m. five days a week during the summer, to the drinking culture in which the younger generation must be constantly ready with a refill...
...tickets at the Mission Tiki have started selling again, and at $7 per adult and free entry for kids under 10, movie-goers are re-embracing the affordable luxury of a night at the drive-in. "It's a family bargain," says Frank Huttinger, vice president of marketing for De Anza Land & Leisure Corp., the family-owned business that operates the Mission Tiki. "It's quality presentation. Our biggest problem is letting people know that we're still there...
...sang paeans to Crist on Tuesday when he unveiled the U.S. Sugar deal say they believe presidential politics is driving his openness to drilling. "For a man who's made himself the Everglades governor to consider offshore drilling I find more than a little surprising," says Mark Kraus, vice president of the Everglades Foundation, "especially when the experts say it would take at least 10 years before it had any effect on gas prices." Crist supporters cringed on Thursday when California governor and Crist pal Arnold Schwarzenegger - during his keynote speech at Crist's eco-summit - himself called offshore drilling...
...ever was; "It's just as easy for me to speak my mind and my heart as it was a year ago." Yet for all his refreshing candor, critics say that he has yet to utter the most important words - that he won't accept a vice presidential nod even if McCain were to offer it. The man who has been Governor less than two years now still has too many problems to fix on the peninsula, they argue, including the state's real estate meltdown. On the question of preemptively taking himself out of consideration Crist will only...