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...Donna Morris, Walmart The writer is chief people officer at the retailer, based in Arkansas, US At Walmart, our associates — our term for our employees — are at the heart of everything we do....
...“What people do will come down to employees figuring out what’s best for them,” says Donna Miller, the company’s European HR director....
...At Covent Garden in 1964 he created for Maria Callas a production of Tosca that became her farewell to the London stage but served as a platform for dozens of prima donnas for the following 40 years....
...US author Donna Tartt’s 784-page novel The Goldfinch is perhaps the most notable omission....
...By snapping her up on the cusp of her career as a jet-setting prima donna, Glyndebourne got its timing right. Half a century later, it has repeated the trick....
...The sheer length of Sutherland’s career as a prima donna was a tribute to the quality of her training and technique, as well as her down-to-earth personality and stamina....
...Bellini’s tale of the druid priestess became known as the ultimate soprano vehicle, a chance for bel canto prima donnas to show off their top notes and coloratura....
...Several programmes have fleshed out the hell of producing heavenly voices – one on Dame Joan Sutherland, that rare thing, a shy prima donna (BBC4 Sunday)....
...Her Elizabeth I lacked the killer instinct, which a prima donna needs as much as a Tudor queen of the realm....
...It encourages members to wear the open, Mandarin collar (sported by Kiefer Sutherland, below) as an alternative to the traditional suit and tie for business and formal occasions....
...Before that the innocent heroine’s dizzy duties were dominated by Joan Sutherland, and long before her by Lily Pons. In her day Maria Callas virtually redefined the opera in Italy and on records....
...Invoking images of Pippi Longstocking, Giulietta Masina in La strada and Huckleberry Finn, she sustained pop-eyed bravado that denied prima-donna allure (forget Lily Pons and Joan Sutherland)....
...She may find comfort in the fact that a novice named Joan Sutherland once performed similar service for Maria Callas at Covent Garden....
...Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland, is the hero of the television thriller 24, a serial that shows in “real time” how the US security services fight to save the world from murderous acts....
...Restricted to 400 entries, there are inevitably omissions (we get Donna Tartt but not Jeffrey Eugenides, Peter Matthiessen but not Mary McCarthy), but it fulfils a service not provided by The Oxford Companion...
..."There were no prima donnas, no dissenting voices," Mr Prodi says. "We followed the mainstream and we worked together."...
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