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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bobs his head up and down, looking tired and confused. He scrunches up his face and occasionally emits a grunt. Every move he makes is closely watched by his disciples, wide-eyed men and women who flock to the courtroom because it's the only chance they have to bask in the aura of the man they still consider their spiritual father. "It was always hard to tell what he was thinking," says one of them, Hiroshi Araki, trying to explain Asahara's puzzling demeanor. "He never did what you expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan's Terror Cult Still Has Appeal | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Well, it's tough to be a hero when you run a real global airline. If Ryanair's Michael O'Leary can bask in the glory of having built up a business almost from scratch, Eddington's lot in life is to try and fix what someone else broke. After rising through the ranks to lead Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, the former Rhodes scholar (he left Oxford with a doctorate in engineering) took the top job at Australia's troubled Ansett airline in 1997. Eddington's cost cutting brought Ansett into the black and reduced its debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Haul to Profits | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

Harvard’s gossip web is so strong because we love power. Let’s face it: gossip makes us feel better about ourselves. The listeners bask in the glow of knowing something that they shouldn’t and the spreaders acquire Harvard’s number one commodity: fame. Quite a symbiotic relationship...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, DIAGNOSIS | Title: Something to Talk About | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...what about the rest of us? The American consumer can usually be counted on to make the Thanksgiving-Christmas period the year?s busiest travel season, with people skipping work and skipping town to be with loved ones, bask on beaches and generally keep the airline, hotel and destination businesses in business another year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel Biz Groans for the Holidays | 11/21/2001 | See Source »

...that all of us can bask in. The toughness of the human spirit and the resolve of strong individuals are uplifting, as we have seen recently in our country. Staph, in his own right, is a hero, and his courage should serve as an example for the rest of his team and for the rest...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Staph's Success A Sweet Struggle | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

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