Greatness Is Largely A Matter Of Conscious Choice

    Q:  I am a "middle" manager at a local company and am looking for some good books on leadership.  Can you recommend some?

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    Bare Necessity by Carole Matthews

    Bare Necessity
    By Carole Matthews
    ISBN:  0-06-055710-9
    Publisher:  HarperCollins Publishers
    Available:  At bookstores everywhere

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    President Bush Signs Landmark Voting Rights Bill at White House Ceremony

    On Thursday, July 27, 2006 at a White House ceremony attended by NAACP leadership, members of the Board of Directors, staff and Civil Rights coalition partners, President Bush signed H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 into law.

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    Great Lakes Folk Festival Lineup

    MSU MUSEUM, EAST LANSING, MICH. – The MSU Museum’s fifth annual Great Lakes Folk Festival is hitting all the right notes with this year’s music program. Klezmer, juke joint swing, Caribbean, Creole, Ugandan and more spectacular sounds and stories will fill the streets of downtown East Lansing for the three-day event, Aug. 11-13, 2006.

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    Local Hairdresser Places in International Hair Competition

    DETROIT, MI — Erica Kimbrough, from Rhonda’s Reflections hair salon located at 6070 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, placed first in the the “Short Hair Division” at the Milky Way Hair Style Competition held at Cobo Hall.

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    Physics Lessons to Begin at Walnut School?

    LANSING, MI — Faced with a $10 million budget deficit, the Lansing School District decided to close Walnut Elementary located at 1012 N. Walnut St. It was one of five schools closed last June by the budget-crunched public school district.

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      Let’s Talk About Self-Love and Self-Respect

      Let’s talk about self-love and self-respect.

      When you greet people for the first time, or any time, do you look them in the eyes? Do you greet them with a firm hand shake?

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        Websites That Won’t Break the Bank

        Q:  I am starting a business and would really love to have a website, but I just don’t know if I can afford it yet.  Do you have any suggestions on ways to have a web presence without breaking the bank?

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        Swung Series Narrows the Generation Gap

        Award winning trumpeter, twenty-four year old Maurice Brown will join Def Poetry Jam finalist, Sparrow O’Neal for Spoken and Swung Series kick-off at SereNgeti Galleries in Detroit, MI, July 26, 2006

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          Pointers to Running a Family Owned Business

          Q: My family and I have been contemplating starting a business. Are there any pointers out there for running a family owned business? Or for starting a business with your spouse?

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