Michael Desiderio, general manager of the restaurant, gently reminds LeRoy that the staffer was hired for his looks, not his personality.

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Not an unusual exchange, except that LeRoy, 22, is chief executive of privately held LeRoy Adventures, and Desiderio was her boss until February.

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"Some programs have a huge leadership component, others spend more time in practical case studies, " says Michael Desiderio, executive director of the Executive MBA Council in Orange, Calif.

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Despite their robust modeling, they seem schematic, as do many of the images of young blondes that follow, paintings by such masters as Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and the Pollaiuolo brothers, and suave marble busts by Desiderio da Settignano and Andrea del Verrocchio.

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