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...fifth day of the death slog (the battle would rage for another five weeks), U.S. troops had commandeered enough of the island to reach the peak of Mount Suribachi. "Put a flag up there," one officer advised, and a few men did. But some bigwig wanted it as a souvenir, so six other men planted a second pole and raised the Stars and Stripes one more time. That was the tableau captured by photographer Joe Rosenthal--the one that told a war-weary American public that their boys were winning...
...outing of CIA operative Valerie Wilson (né Plame) consumed Washington for three years. The case received a radical reconfiguring when former State Department bigwig Richard Armitage confirmed that he was the original source for columnist Robert Novak's revelation. Novak weighed in last week, calling Armitage's contrition bogus and the leak deliberate. In the D.C. bureau of Fox News, anchor Brit Hume goaded Plamegate chronicler David Corn into an off-camera shouting spree. "Both leaked classified information, Brit!" Corn raged. "Go ahead and laugh!" Here, TIME re-evaluates some major players. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy...
...goal is to make even hardened executives recognize themselves--or, at the very least, their superiors--when he acts like the bigwig who keeps glancing at his watch during a meeting or cuts off a colleague midsentence to answer his cell phone. "It's not just mumbo-jumbo, feel-good diversity training," says Gerald Lord, V.P. of finance and strategy for Campbell Soup's North American division. After sitting through one of Young's three-hour, Dr. Phil--style seminars last month, Lord is convinced that getting his fellow executives to pay attention to microgestures can help improve Campbell...
...about practically everything. We see it at work on Wall Street, which absorbs the collected wisdom of millions of investors and expresses it as stock prices. Prediction markets now let people bet on everything from sports scores to election results to the expected capture of al-Qaeda bigwig Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Some of the best of those online markets: the Hollywood Stock Exchange, the Iowa Electronic Markets, Yahoo's Tech Buzz Game and PublicGyan. InTrade, run by the Trade Exchange Network, an Irish firm, cleared 50,000 contracts last month (including 10% odds that al-Zarqawi will be caught...
...show's introductory section, in which black people feature as part of ordinary life, in street scenes or fighting alongside white comrades. Of course, many black Victorians did still occupy subordinate positions. In Thomas Faed's Visit to the Village School (1852), set in Scotland, a local bigwig and his wife listen to the youngest students reading, while some of the older pupils taunt their young black servant. Such story pictures were put together from studies of professional models. Jamaican-born Fanny Eaton often turns up in the background of biblical subjects, but later in the century black models appeared...