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Tuesday, December 09, 2003


What a scathing piece about the transition of power at Boeing. I'm sure any company that big is going to have some dirty laundry but this is just kooky:
"Condit had married Jan Condit -- his first cousin -- in the early '90s"
Whaaa? How do you get to be that powerful if Business Week finds out you married your first cousin? Isn't that illegal?
Said one Boeing lawyer to a senior Boeing executive: "We have another Bill Clinton on our hands."
That seems a little odd, don't ya think? Also:
"Condit hosted elaborate parties that often included poetry readings and evenings of Camelot themes, featuring characters from King Arthur."
Uh, does this involve any D&D characters or a 21 sided die?

Here's yet another article about the goings on at Boeing. This one had at least a ray of optimism, and no mention of incest:
To leapfrog Airbus, Boeing needed to roll the dice. Instead, its new culture of soaking the taxpayers for military goodies while playing it safe on the commercial-aircraft front may have cost Boeing its future and blown a hole in the U.S. economy that never will close.



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