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...boss was responsible for cutting up old reels from classic directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Goddard, and Federico Fellini, sometimes hacking at random to prepare the film for broadcast on late-night television...
Realogy's passage into private ownership was nonetheless a landmark--because it marked the end of chief executive Henry Silverman's career as boss of a publicly traded corporation. Silverman, 66, is no household name, but he may be one of the iconic figures of modern American capitalism. Either that or "the Zelig of the corporate world," as he once called himself, evoking Woody Allen's cipher of a character who shows up at major historical moments...
...complicated brief to try to implicate the government in the $300 million scam, especially as the company's executives were the focus. But the experience proved that Rudd and his young advisers were relentless. Month after month, Rudd had a staffer sitting in on the Cole Commission hearings; the boss might as well have been sitting there himself, such was the diligence of the field operatives. Rudd and his inner circle may be inexperienced campaigners, but their seven-day work habits and taste for political blood will take them a long way in a brutal enterprise...
Such confidence has always been Hamilton's hallmark. When he first met Ron Dennis, now his Formula One team boss, as a 10-year-old, Hamilton informed him that he wanted to drive for McLaren. Three years later, he joined the team's support program for promising young drivers. But he's also ready to listen and learn. Hamilton has a rare "capacity to question himself - to analyze very clearly after a race," says Frédéric Vasseur, general manager at the ART Grand Prix team behind Hamilton's GP2 championship...
...Giovanni recalled that Cho "was very intimidating to my other students." Eventually, other kids began skipping class because of his behavior. The poet then wrote creative writing department boss Lucinda Roy a letter - in part to create a record - asking Roy to remove him from class. Giovanni said Cho turned in material that wasn't poetry but just junk. "He was writing weird things," she recalled. "It was terrible.... It was just intimidating...