• For example, if your boss is a family-man, begin your casual talk with how important family is to you.

    FORBES: Six Scientific Ways to Suck up Successfully

  • Australia coach Pim Verbeek blamed Rhys Williams' club boss after the young defender missed out on his final 23-man World Cup squad.

    CNN: Lee wins South Korea World Cup spot despite injury problems

  • Harte was ratified following recommendations by a five-man selection committee who preferred the Errigal Ciaran boss ahead fancied duo Brian McIver and McKenna.

    BBC: Harte is new Tyrone boss

  • The nonsensical structure of Welsh rugby seems summed up by the fact that Gatland has been appointed before the man who will become his boss, the yet-to-be-named Elite Performance Director.

    BBC: The tests facing Gatland

  • One of the most remarkable stories is of a Redditor whose confession on the site about how he was cheating his employer led to him being sacked, then re-hired as his firm's IT boss while the man who fired him was let go.

    BBC: Reddit's rise: Can the social news service stay popular?

  • The visitors never looked like getting back into the game as Blues boss Alex McLeish suffered a defeat at the hands of Coyle - the man he recommended for the Burnley job.

    BBC: Burnley 2-1 Birmingham

  • It was particularly striking that Mr D'Alema and his party's national secretary, Walter Veltroni, were both overshadowed at the conference by a third man, Sergio Cofferati, the old-style boss of Italy's largest trade union.

    ECONOMIST: Italy: Same old mess | The

  • Avner Kauffman (Eric Bana), a young Mossad agent whose wife is expecting a baby, is told by his boss (played by Geoffrey Rush) that he is to lead the five-man squad that will avenge those deaths.

    ECONOMIST: ��Munich�� is a meditation on vengeance. Pity about the facts

  • Police in Mexico have arrested the father-in-law of the country's most wanted man, the drug boss Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman.

    BBC: Mexico arrests Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's father-in-law

  • Tenet has largely been the invisible man during his tenure at the CIA -- overshadowed by his vainglorious former boss, Director John Deutch, and made largely irrelevant by the responsibility Deutch reposed in his controversial and autocratic Executive Director, Nora Slatkin, to perform virtually all day-to-day management functions.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The System Worked On Lake; Will It On Tenet?

  • All those words in italics represent an acknowledgement that it would appear that women had, indeed, complained - albeit not in writing or via formal procedures - about the way they had been treated by a man who was either their boss or could influence their future political career.

    BBC: Sex claims - who knew what?

  • On a good day they call him Zhu Laoban, Zhu the Boss, the only man capable of imposing order on an economy of 1.3 billion money-hungry people snarled in one of the greatest economic traffic jams the world has ever seen.

    CNN: Red star

  • Meanwhile, Rangers boss Walter Smith has paid tribute to the departing Strachan, who is thought to be on a three-man shortlist for the managerial vacancy at Sunderland and would be interested in a return to England's top-flight.

    BBC: Strachan eyes McGhee as successor

  • " wallows in Low-era melancholy, and "Boss of Me" is a gospel-glam strut in the spirit of Aladdin Sane's "Watch That Man.

    CNN: Review: David Bowie's first new album in 10 years

  • Now, I was telling the boss over here that the thing I like most about everything -- again, being the son of an automobile man -- is that my dad would be happy.

    WHITEHOUSE: Standing Behind the American Auto Industry

  • And on April 27, the man whose arrest sparked a wave of gang violence in the past year--alleged triad boss Wan Kuok-Koi (alias "Broken Tooth")--will be brought to trial under new legislation that targets organized crime.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • Luo Liang (played by a young man of the same name) is the driver and bagman for a big-time developer, Boss Peng (Peng Deming), who turns to strong-arm tactics when his attempts at bribery fail to clear restive peasants from their land.

    NEWYORKER: Good Cats

  • Bellamy last week revealed he would consider quitting football if he is frozen out at Mancini's big-spending City - and the City boss said the striker should find a new club after revealing he would be omitted from his Premier League and 23-man Europa Cup squads.

    BBC: Craig Bellamy allowed to train with Cardiff City

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