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The Honesty Business » The head of a company pays his employees to tell him the truth. What’s next? Promotions based on merit? investigates. I’m not a businessman or even an MBA, or, for that matter, a guy who can keep straight the difference between bulls a...
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3 Day Trips From Honolulu » Within an hours drive of the capital city (if you drive any farther, your car had better come equiped with a ruder), is a world of fun just waiting to be explored.
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Now In Paper » A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS By Dave Eggers, Vintage, $14 If you haven’t yet read Dave Eggers’ original, moving memoir of raising his younger brother after both paren'ts succumb to cancer, the paperback’s release leaves yo...
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What Do I Get To Do Next? » WHO Ken Lang, 34, founder and CEO of 100X Inc., a Waltham, Massachusetts-based Internet incubator with Þve portfolio companies, including Buzzpad Inc. and Fitplay.com. 100X has raised $10 million since it was started a year ago.
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by Don Carty

American Way Vantage Point archives are not available prior to May 15, 2003


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