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RESIGNING. TOM RIDGE, 59, as the country's first Secretary of Homeland Security; TOMMY THOMPSON, 63, as Secretary of Health and Human Services; and JOHN DANFORTH, 68, as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Ridge's nominated replacement is BERNARD KERIK, 49, the brusque and blunt former New York City police commissioner who won praise for his calm crisis management in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks...
POLO: I love that you're just so blunt...
...most," says George. The actor has made peace with the fact that directors love him more than producers do. "You have to be in something that makes a whole lot of money and have the perception be that you're the reason it made money," he says. "It's blunt business. Yes, it would be fantastic if I had my pick of the litter of anything I wanted to do, but by the same token, I've made a comfortable living, and I don't sit at home and see a lot of roles I didn...
...times may be changing. After a bruising annual-meeting season during which CalPERS wielded its $166 billion portfolio like a bludgeon, members of its board gathered in Lake Tahoe, Nev., in July to take stock. One invited speaker, Richard Koppes, a former CalPERS general counsel, delivered a blunt message. "Your friends think you're unfocused and too political," Koppes said. "They say you're beginning to damage the corporate-governance movement." CalPERS president Sean Harrigan, a grocery workers' union boss and an architect of the institutional investor's bare-knuckle strategy, got a more pointed message two weeks ago from...
...Blunt observations like this are stock in trade for Menendez. Although she aspires to be a public figure, she can be disarmingly transparent. For one thing, she is very upfront about her ambitions...