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Bury My Heart At Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers. Stan Slap. Portfolio 272 pages. <p/> It's a reliable axiom that any book authored by a business consultant is essentially an extended sales brochure for his or her services. The initial 20 pages or so of this offering by management trainer Stan Slap is devoted to touting his program's overall wonderfullness, without establishing the foundation for the energetic self-promotion, which portends yet another instance of this phenomenon..
What 8-year-old is furry, slobbers profusely and gets paid $500 a day?<p/> Annette Alfonso's border collie Dealer, who made his silver-screen debut in the 2008 movie Marley & Me. Dealer and Alfonso's other three border collies jumped into the ocean with the dog that played Marley, and the scene took a week to film..
Thomas and Laura Fabricio, newlywed lawyers, say prices have sagged since they began looking for a starter home last year. As a result, they say, once-too-pricey neighborhoods opened up and descended right into their price bracket -- $200,000, give or take..
