Our recently posted Harvard Business Review IdeaCast gave you some idea of what holds leaders back . But what really propels them forward? Bill George, author of "True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership" sat down with The Wall Street Journal to offer some examples of effective senior executives, and to explain what...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Senate on Wednesday passed a bill expanding legal authority for electronic wiretaps by spy agencies, handing victory to President George W. Bush after a standoff over anti-terror strategy. The measure includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications firms which aided warrantless government surveillance operations following...
HOUSTON -- Tony Chase announced his resignation today as Deputy Chairman & Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to campaign more actively for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Chase states he can make an even greater contribution...
PROVO -- City officials and Broadweave Networks may have reached a "modified closing" in the iProvo transaction Monday night, but City Councilman George Stewart says the deal's not done yet. "A closing isn't a closing until it's a closing," he said. And as long as it's not...
I have been reading your magazine regularly since 1961 and I enjoy author George Vass' take on the subjects he covers in each issue. I was amused to see in the May issue that Vass also has noticed that baseball players seem susceptible to an inordinate number of...
WASHINGTON AFP — The United States has removed former South African president Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress from a three-decade old immigration watch list for possible terrorists, the White House said Tuesday. In time for the anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner's 90th birthday on...
LOS ANGELES AP -- He was the comedian who actually said the seven words you can never say on television, but close friends and family members remembered George Carlin as a man who, when he was off stage, had only a kind word for everyone he met. ...
THE Democrats have gone all the way. They have nominated arguably the most left-wing major-party presidential nominee ever, certainly the most leftwing since George McGovern. Obama's victory is a repudiation not just of the Clintons personally, but of Clintonism. Bill Clinton won the presidency based on a new...
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush on Monday signed into law a 162-billion-dollar spending bill funding the Afghanistan and Iraq wars well into 2009 -- roughly six months into his successor's term. "With this legislation, we send a clear message to all that are serving on...
WASHINGTON -- George F. Will, the conservative columnist and pundit, seems too young and young-looking to be anyone's "elder statesman." He is 67, his hair still boyishly parted, his face hardly lined, his wire-rimmed persona that of a graduate student whose idea of a vice is skipping class to catch...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Senate has approved a bill to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress from the US terror watch list, lawmakers said Friday. "Today the United States moved closer at last to removing the great shame of dishonoring this...
MEXICO CITY AFP — Mexico welcomed on Friday the US Congress's approval of 400 million dollars in aid to equip the government in its deadly campaign against drug trafficking. "I am sure that this initiative will contribute to our governments' improved collaboration and greater efficiency in the fight...
Radical stand-up comedian To audiences outside the United States, the American comedian George Carlin was the most excellent Rufus, the world's coolest time traveller, in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the 1989 slacker comedy starring Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves. The film became a cult and Carlin's...
WASHINGTON -- The House approved a bill Tuesday aimed at protecting teens enrolled in wilderness therapy camps, several of which are based in Utah. Several provisions in the bill are modeled after Utah's state regulations on the wilderness camps, and although the bill passed 318 to 103,...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a much-disputed bill alloting 162 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill gives funding for the conflicts through to mid-2009 after President George W. Bush, who must now sign the bill into law, has...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Senate late Thursday approved a 1.6-billion-dollar, three-year package of anti-drug assistance to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean known as the "Merida Initiative." The bill was approved by the House of Representatives on June 10, so the measure now goes to President George...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Senate late Thursday approved a 1.6-billion-dollar, three-year package of anti-drug assistance to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean known as the "Merida Initiative." The bill was approved by the House of Representatives on June 10, so the measure now goes to President George...
SYDNEY AFP — Golfing legend Greg Norman and former tennis star Chris Evert will marry this weekend in the Bahamas, the Australian Associated Press reported Thursday. The couple, both 53, are to wed Saturday at sunset on a beach in Paradise Island, the AAP said, citing various media...
DURHAM, N.C. -- M&F Bancorp, Inc. announced the appointment of the 2008-2009 Board of Directors of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Mechanics and Farmers Bank (M&F Bank). Three new Directors are joining the Board, including William V. "Bill" Bell, Bishop George W. Brooks, and Lenny F. Springs II. The returning Directors include...
ST. GEORGE -- Two months after Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, introduced a revised version of the Washington County Growth & Conservation Act to a Senate committee, a local citizens group wants to tweak the legislation. "It is our position that the 2008 bill satisfies citizen priorities in...
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