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Fiorina has quieted some of those she calls her "cynics and doubters," who had whispered that a woman with a marketing background was not fit to run HP. But she still faces formidable challenges, starting with generating profits in PCs and corporate "enterprise systems" at her newly merged company, which posted $35 billion in revenues in its first six months. Can she go from being a Churchillian leader, adept at giving a "We will never surrender" speech, to being more of a Lou Gerstner, IBM's former CEO, who was able not only to slash costs and jettison unpromising lines...
...Kennedy returned from a U.S.-Soviet summit in Vienna on crutches and was lifted onto Air Force One by a cherrypicker, the most graphic public display of his physical problems. But two nights later, he was in Palm Beach sipping daiquiris while Frank Sinatra records played in the background, telling amusing and frightening stories of his encounter with Nikita Khrushchev. The back spasm of two days earlier never came up. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, which roused the most thunderous audience response I have ever witnessed or felt, came after hours of touring the Berlin Wall while...
...moment, Morris is very still, sitting in his room with The Simpsons on mute in the background. He sits up in his bed, calmly answering the same questions he’s answered most of the year to yet another member of the media. Yes, ESPN has gotten to this Carl Morris as well, and so have Sports Illustrated and The New York Times. And the result is the other polished, public Morris. The answers have been given a million times now—to publications, to scouts—and the prospect doesn’t hesitate while jumping...
...everything,” long-time friend and Honolulu City Councilman Mufi Hannemann told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. “He had education. He had background, He had charisma. He was destined...
Articles about Swenson’s background have appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal, after a Yale undergraduate forwarded them to the newspaper...