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Management: Relating Is Everything.  HIS NAME IS LESS IMPORTANT HERE THAN HIS WORLD-CLASS ACHIEVEMENT IN MANAGING RICE PEOPLE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT? RICE IS THE FOOD OF MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD’S 6,500 MILLION HUMANS. IN ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE, I GET 200 MILLION ENGLISH PAGES FROM GOOGLE IN 0.50 SECONDS SEARCHING FOR RICE. In case you wanted to know: The actual search entries I typed were: rice -condoleeza -“rice university” -tim -anne -“edgar rice burroughs” – the minus sign (not hyphen) means ‘by all means exclude in the search.’ And the search results were only the pages published in the Internet. Here’s a comparative data on the importance of subject knowledge based on Google search in number of English pages: 81.2 million, Shakespeare 79.2 million,  Lost  TV Series 55.3 million, Al Qaeda 33.8 million, Beatles 31.7 million,  Da Vinci Code 31.0 million, Bill Gates 22.3 million, Albert Einstein 19.4 million, Tiger Woods 17.5 million, Britney Spears 02.3 million, Princess

Published 31 July 2006 Original Title: "Management: Relating Is Everything" HIS NAME IS LESS IMPORTANT HERE THAN HIS WORLD-CLASS ACHIEVEMENT IN MANAGING RICE PEOPLE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT? RICE IS THE FOOD OF MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD’S 6,500 MILLION HUMANS. IN ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE, I GET 200 MILLION ENGLISH PAGES FROM GOOGLE IN 0.50 SECONDS SEARCHING FOR RICE. In case you wanted to know: The actual search entries I typed were: rice -condoleeza -“rice university” -tim -anne -“edgar rice burroughs” – the minus sign (not hyphen) means ‘by all means exclude in the search.’ And the search results were only the pages published in the Internet. Here’s a comparative data on the importance of subject knowledge based on Google search in number of English pages: 81.2 million, Shakespeare 79.2 million,  Lost  TV Series 55.3 million, Al Qaeda 33.8 million, Beatles 31.7 million,  Da Vinci Code 31.0 million, Bill Gates 22.3 million, Albert Einstein 19.4 million, Tiger Woods 17

A Tale of Four Loves, St Valentine & The Language of Amour What has become of love? This is the story of love memorialized in the 3rd century in  Rome  and in the 16 th  century in  England , and made memorable in  England  in the 15th century and in the  United States  in the 19th century. A Tale of Four Loves. The first was under a dictatorship, the second was under feuding authoritarian families, the third was under conditions of war, the fourth was under a democracy. Love rises under a totalitarian regime; love lives on even after death; love survives the batteries of war; love thrives under a libertarian administration. Love conquers all. Love to you; Happy Valentine’s Day! (Thanks to Studio Melizo for the photo, a cut,  holidays.net/ ). I begin my story in ancient times, when gods and goddesses populated the mythical mind. I am especially attracted to Venus, the Roman goddess of sexual love and physical beauty. Her very name, from Latin, means love. She was the Daugh