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Lyon exit Champions League with heads held high
LYON, France AFP — After their narrow exit to Manchester United at Old Trafford Lyon chairman Jean-Michel Aulas insisted Wednesday the French champions could feel they had acquitted themselves well, even if they had failed to reach the last eight. "I told the players there were more positives than...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Games, humility, Manchester
Research articles 2008-03-05
Quotable & notable
"Forgo anger, tobacco, intoxication and gluttony in favor of exercise, humility, charity, prayer and patience. " --Fr. Nicholas Kao Se-tsean, who at 110 years old is believed to be one of the world's oldest Roman Catholic priests, on his secrets for long life. Kao is a Chinese Trappist living...
Tags: humility, tobacco, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-02-02
Streets ahead of the rest; American investment banks.(Investment banks' bumper year)
Humility? Forget it IT HAS been a year to make even Croesus blush for the big Wall Street securities firms. Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers have all announced record profits and beaten analysts' expectations in the process. Morgan Stanley, which was due...
Tags: bank, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., FINANCE, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., humility, Lehman Brothers Inc., Strategy, Taxes
Research articles 2006-12-23
ENVIRONMENT : BIODIVERSITY DEMANDS HUMILITY, DECENCY AND RESPONSIBILITY
Europe Information 05-31-2006 Former Czech President Vaclav Havel set the tone for discussions throughout the sixth Green Week being staged between 30 May and 2 June in Brussels by the European Commission's Environment Directorate-General on the theme "biodiversity of life", setting the debate from the outset in the context of...
Tags: environment, European Commission, humility
Research articles 2006-05-31
Tyson Mao-content
WITH AGE COMES humility, even for a guy like Mike Tyson. Tyson, once regarded as one of the most ferocious people on the planet - both in and out of the boxing ring - visited the mausoleum of Mao Zedong, leader of China's communist movement from 1945 to '76....
Tags: concrete, humility, Leadership, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Tyson
Research articles 2006-04-04
Kingfisher
I have come out in my pajamas to feed the birds- cardinals, a towhee, finches and sparrows- the ones I like to think might some day learn to love me. I stand on the cliff above the creek, the largest animal these hundred acres hold, my hubris pitiful, and you...
Tags: Fordham University, humility
Research articles 2006-04-01
Giving thanks
Humility is the heart of Thanksgiving, because it takes humility to appreciate others' contributions to our lives. Yet humility is rarely given its due outside of the pulpit; it tends to be overshadowed by an American preference for optimism and a can-do spirit. True humility is capable of learning and...
Tags: church, FINANCE, humility, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes
Research articles 2005-11-24
Roberts pledges 'humility' as Senate hearings begin
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was unflappable and succinct Monday, after sometimes blunt criticism from Democrats in the opening day of Senate hearings to confirm him as the nation's 17th chief justice. In his longest remarks since President Bush first nominated him in July, Roberts told the...
Tags: Democrat, humility, nominee, Sen., U.S. Senate
Research articles 2005-09-13
Charles Townes
Charles Townes, a Nobel laureate who helped invent the laser and was an early pioneer in comparing scientific and religious thought, has won the $1.5 million Templeton Prize for 2005. A South Carolina native who grew up as a progressive Baptist, the 89-year-old Townes said he would accept the award--the...
Tags: Columbia University, humility
Research articles 2005-04-05
Sir Bobby tells Mourinho to grow up
LONDON AFP — English football's senior manager, Sir Bobby Robson, has told Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho to learn some humility. Robson, the former Newcastle and England manager who showed Mourinho the ropes when the Portuguese was his assistant at Barcelona, agrees Mourinho is a master coach. But he...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Barcelona, England, gesture, humility, Sir
Research articles 2005-03-03
Gore goes ballistic
"George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to 'restore honor and integrity to the White House.' Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most...
Tags: Gore, humility, Leadership, White House
Research articles 2004-06-20
Man of principle. (Bookshelf).(Book Review) (book review)
In his acknowledgements far "Put the Moose on the Table: Lessons in Leadership From a CEO's Journey Through Business and Life" (2003, Indiana University Press), co-author Randall Tobias with son Todd Tobias says he long resisted entreaties to write a book, reasoning that "the world does...
Tags: CEO, Eli Lilly & Co., humility, Indiana University, Leadership
Research articles 2003-05-01
Covey shares perspectives on leadership with CoC delegates.(author Stephen Covey addresses the 2002 Congress of Cities conference)
Humility and willpower are two of the keys to leadership and leading well, according to Stephen Covey, author of `The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" and co-founder and vice chairman of Franklin-Covey, during a speech at the Congress of Cities in Salt Lake City. ...
Tags: humility, Leadership, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2002-12-16
Hall of fame: Deborah Berke.
Despite her lofty achievements, architect Deborah Berke remains grounded and, above all, genuine. Humility and a lack of pretension infuse her stylistically varied work. "It's about economy of gesture. I aspire to understatement--it must be my Yankee roots," jokes the New York-born Rhode Island School of...
Tags: CAREER, gesture, humility, Yale University
Research articles 2002-12-01
Questioning how we behave and why people hate us - Cover Story
Chris Hedges, 46, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, was a war correspondent for 15 years. He joined the staff of The New York Times in 1990 and in the past worked for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He wrote a few pieces,...
Tags: attack, Harvard, humility, NCR Corp., New York Times Co., SECURITY, U.S., violence
Research articles 2002-11-29
Step up to: Level 5 leadership
James C. Collins, author of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, reports in his study "Good to Great" HarperBusiness that leaders who can turn good companies into great ones have "genuine humility and selfdoubt but also the singular drive to make their companies succeed." Though other factors-culture...
Tags: humility, Leadership, Wharton School
Research articles 2001-10-01
ARCHITECT By NATURE.(Brief Article)
WILLIAM McDONOUGH DISCUSSES THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN BUILDING IN A REGION DOMINATED BY INDUSTRY. Rarely would one describe a $2 billion project as having "great humility," but that's exactly what William McDonough sees in Ford Motor Co.'s effort to green the redesign of...
Tags: Cleveland, Ford Motor Co., humility, Strategy, tragedy
Research articles 2001-06-01
Desert Wisdom: Sayings from the Desert Fathers
Desert Wisdom: Sayings from the Desert Fathers, translated and illustrated by Yushi Nomura, contains a treasure-trove of inspired advice from the Christian hermits of the fourth and fifth centuries. Nomura, a Japanese artist and theologian, studied these Egy tian ascetics while attending Yale Divinity School in 1978. Under the guidance...
Tags: antidote, conscience, humility, restraint, Yale University
Research articles 2001-06-01
Remarks at a National Day of Prayer Reception
May 3, 2001 Thank you, all. Thank you and welcome to the White House. It's great to see members of my Cabinet here. Secretaries Veneman, Martinez, and Paige, thank you all for coming. Leaders of the United States Congress, thank you all for being here, as well. Shirley,...
Tags: humility, president, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, White House
Research articles 2001-05-07
Lion lies down: Julius Nyerere comes to the end of the anti-colonial life
THE death from leukaemia of Julius Nyerere at the age of 77 deprives independent Africa of one of its most intelligent, perceptive and determinedly radical leaders. He was an inspiration not just to Africans but also to people all over the world who interpreted `world development' as meaning a fairer...
Tags: FINANCE, humility, leader, Leadership, World Bank
Research articles 1999-12-01
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