Scardino's way

摘要

It was big Texan blonde week in London. Jerry Hall, model and ex-sort-of-wife of Mick Jagger, revealed all in a stage production of "The Graduate". And Marjorie Scar-dino, Pearson's chief executive, revealed more of her vision for the media company when she announced on July 31st Britain's biggest-ever rights issue—to finance the $2.5 billion purchase of National Computer Systems (ncs), an American education-testing and software group. Ms Hall was panned for being wooden. Mrs Scardino, a former chief executive of The Economist, did better: a convincing performance, the critics cooed.