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...would serve consumers and corporations at every stage. But the board ultimately concluded that Fiorina had one significant weakness as a chief executive: she just wasn't very good at running the business. That's a problem when you head an $80 billion behemoth with lackluster earnings that is beset on all sides by competitors like IBM, EMC and Dell. "Looking forward, we think the job is very reliant on hands-on execution, and we thought a new set of capabilities was called for," said Patricia Dunn, an HP director who became nonexecutive chairwoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Carly's Out | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...world beset by political strife, these young ambassadors make politics personal. A French exchange student lived with Gail and Richard Marshall, 54 and 56, editors at the Fresno Bee, during the "freedom fries" period of Franco-American relations. When the girl's brother called, spewing blanket attacks on Americans, the young diplomat retorted, "I'm here. I know what Americans are thinking and saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full House Again | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...Okla. He first won attention in 1953 when he released 100,000 balloons with biblical quotations into the Soviet Union, and at his peak he was carried on more than 500 radio and 250 TV stations. But his popularity faltered in the 1970s after his organization, Christian Crusade, was beset by a series of troubles, culminating in allegations--which he denied and which were not proved--that he had been sexually involved with students of both sexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 13, 2004 | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...once Harding returned to base, he had trouble sleeping. His mind replayed the gruesome scene over and over. He suffered changes of mood and was beset by anxiety about why the incident had happened. He went out on patrol the next day carrying with him classic symptoms of combat stress: the emotional, physical and psychological fallout from living through--or under the extended threat of--traumatic events. Said company commander Captain Patrick Rapicault, "You have to get over your feelings and keep on pushing, just for the simple reason that you have another 170 Marines to take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wounds That Don't Bleed | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

Team America applies the innocent make-believe of puppets to numbingly real issues: the use of military power to fight insurgent forces and the vision of the U.S. as a superstud nation beset by terrorists abroad and liberal actors at home. It pulls off this brassy trope in the guise of an action movie in the Jerry Bruckheimer mode. Imagine Armageddon starring Pinocchio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: When Puppets Get Political | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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