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So what’s all the fuss about Indra Nooyi’s Columbia speech. . . and the digitus impudicus? Images are important. Symbolism is powerful. Look to the story about the USS Pueblo and the crew’s defiant...
Indra Nooyi made $5.5 MILLION US total direct compensation in 2003. She was #12 in the list of the top earners among CFO’s. I explain below what I mean by “bimbo” in the headline....
Indra Nooyi President and CFO, PepsiCo “Now as never before, it’s important we give the world a hand — not the finger.” May 15th speech, Columbia Business School I’ve been on the phone this...
I have a very distinct memory of hearing a speaker, prior to my marriage, offering advice to married couples and suggesting that they introduce themselves as “we.” As in: “Hi, we are the Yoests....
Why worry about women in combat? Why not just let the Pentagon go ahead with boiling the frog? After all, proponents argue, it is an all-volunteer army now. Let me highlight one reason, among...
The blogosphere is abuzz with the Newsweek “retraction.” But I’ve just finished reading Evan Thomas’ “How a Fire Broke Out” and it sounds more like J’accuse — a reassertion of their accusation — to...
We’ve been following the Pentagon’s “boiled frog” strategy related to women in combat. . . the plan has been to simply go ahead and put women into combat, present it to the American people...
Children: The new status symbol. So says Simon Doonan at The New York Observer: Onto the landscape of Manhattan, a new and lethal status symbol has alighted—and it’s causing the J.A.P.’s and WASP’s of...
For today’s history exam: “The relative merits of Abraham Lincoln. . . and John Edwards.” Please discuss. The Discovery Channel and AOL have just released a list of nominees, based on an online poll,...
Monday’s Washington Post article about tonight’s dinner in honor of Tom DeLay quoted Marshall Wittman, (former Republican-now DLC staffer) as saying: “Tribute dinners are how politicians sit shiva for their dead.” Well, maybe that’s often true, but the event tonight at the Capital Hilton was pretty festive and, as Brent Bozell said, had more the air of an old-fashioned hootenanny. . . for over 900 people.
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