Allegations that US Secret Service agents consorted with prostitutes in Colombia have “let the boss down”, says the US military’s top officer.

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Colombia scandal ‘embarrasses’ US

Recall your worst day at work, when events of the day left you frustrated, unmotivated by the job, and brimming with disdain for your boss and your organization. That day is probably unforgettable. But do you know exactly how your boss was able to make it so horrible for you? Our research provides insight into the precise levers you can use to re-create that sort of memorable experience for your own underlings. Read full article > >

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How to completely, utterly destroy an employee’s work life

Reader: My girlfriend told me that her boss (married with children) asked her out for dinner and drinks to “discuss her performance.” When she told me she accepted, I was less than pleased. I explained that her boss’s request was simply inappropriate and her acceptance even more so. Has the women’s movement come to this? Have the years of litigation and regulation on sexual harassment in the workplace been reduced to a “Mad Men” version of reality? Needless to say, we are at odds. I believe her act has empowered a sexual predator to continue his behavior and subjected every other female employee to a hostile work environment whether they are or are not as compliant in accepting his advances. She thinks I don’t trust her. I trust her to make the correct decision, particularly when so much guidance is available in this arena. Read full article > >

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Early in Thomas Mallon’s new novel about the Watergate scandal , President Nixon’s secretary wonders when her boss will get his own marble temple on the Mall. It’s the sort of arresting moment of naivete that frequently punctuates this witty, surprisingly humane dramatization of that vaudevillian chapter in American politics. Read full article > >

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Book World: Thomas Mallon’s ‘Watergate’ is imaginative political farce

Being a wife is hard enough. Try also being a first lady. How do you balance your ambitions with the high-visibility role you are thrust into? How do you act as an advocate, often with a small budget, no experience and little respect? And how do you make sure your husband, now the leader of a nation, knows you’re still the boss? Read full article > >

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Rand African First Ladies Initiative fosters leadership among political wives

David Cameron is understood to have apologised to Tory MP Nadine Dorries for his reply when she voiced “frustration” in the Commons at Lib Dem influence and told him to show Nick Clegg “who’s the boss”.

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PM sorry to ‘frustrated’ Dorries

TAMURA, JAPAN — When the boss of Tokyo Electric Power Co. checked into a Tokyo hospital last week with high blood pressure, he didn’t get any sympathy from Tomishige Maruzoi.

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In Japan, evacuees direct anger at nuclear-plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Allegations of violence against women failed to get Charlie Sheen off the air, but insulting his boss has.

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The Media Equation: Insulting Chuck Lorre, Not Abuse, Gets Sheen Sidelined

One more for Hollywood’s baby boom: Actress Alyssa Milano, former star of Who’s the Boss?, Charmed, and the new movie Hall Pass, is pregnant with her first child. Milano, 38, tweeted Tuesday she and husband David Bugliari “couldn’t be happier” after…

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Alyssa Milano Pregnant

The stresses of the campaign trail can drive a candidate to act strangely, but senior staffers of U.S. Rep. David Wu (D-OR) say that in the days before the November election their boss’ behavior was so alarming they demanded he enter a hospital for…

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Congressman Urged to Seek Psych Help

It’s a win for oversharers everywhere: The National Labor Relations Board has settled a complaint with a Connecticut ambulance company that fired an employee for badmouthing her boss on Facebook. The company agreed to revise its rules to acknowledge…

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Facebook Gossip Not a Firing Offense

A janitor fatally shot his boss, the school principal, at the Louisiana Schnell Elementary School in Sacramento Wednesday morning. Police said Sam LaCara, 50, died from a single gunshot wound to the torso. The suspected shooter, John Luebbers, was…

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CA Janitor Fatally Shoots Principal

Would bankers get big payouts if Aristotle was the boss?

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US President Barack Obama is to name Jeffrey Immelt, the boss of General Electric, as head of a new economic advisory panel.

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GE boss to head new economy panel

How do you explain writing this conference off to your boss? The Catholic church recently held a conference for exorcism training, part of the church’s increased battle against demonic spirits. The reason for the training? Demonic possession, or at…

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Catholic Church Training More Exorcists