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The CEO as CEO
Before Jon Corzine was just elected as the chief executive of New Jersey, but in a previous job he was the CEO of Goldman Sachs. What does Governor-elect Corzine’s time as an investment bank leader say about his new role?
Goldman Fleece?
Mike Kelly, columnist at The Record of New Jersey,
and
Boris Groysberg, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School
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on Jon Corzine's business and leadership style and how it will inform his Governorship
» The Record
Other Ways to be Merry
David Cote, Time Out New York's theater editor,
and
Joe Dziemianowicz, writer for the Daily News,
- share their favorite holiday entertainment alternatives
» Theater in TimeOut New York
» The Daily News
How to Stop Terror?
Steven Simon, former National Security Council staffer, teaches at Georgetown University, and co-author with Daniel Benjamin, The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right (Times Books, 2005),
- shares his thoughts on preventing another 9/11
» The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right (Times Books)
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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