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...being willing to punch someone, but only if it would mask his own pain. Because of this combination of machismo and sensitivity, like a more handsome Russell Crowe, he was in demand. He just wasn?t sure that he wanted to be. "Heath," a studio boss once told me, "needs to decide who he really wants...
...small figure with graying hair, dressed in navy sweat pants and cleats, doesn't look much like a savior. But after returning last week as team boss of Newcastle United, the English Premier League football club whose St. James' Park stadium stands atop this city, Kevin Keegan is moonlighting as Newcastle's spiritual leader. Hardworking and proud of their roots, his congregation are "Geordie first and English second," says Brian Aitken, editor of local paper The Journal. And as a blend of "the three F's," he says - that's fun, family and football - for most of those Geordies "football...
...Newcastle haven't won a major competition for almost 40 years - "there's a huge sense of renewed confidence," says Ramsbotham. That same bounce lifted the city's productivity while Keegan was last in charge at the club, fans maintain, and even reduced sick leave in the city. "My boss has never seen me happier," says one, standing outside United's club shop, with its rails of freshly printed Keegan T-shirts nearly all cleaned...
Whether Nicolas turns out to be cut more from the Arrupe or Kolvenbach mold remains to be seen. A Jesuit source in Rome said that the new boss had ruffled Vatican feathers in 1998 with his role in a request by Asian bishops for more local authority for Church decisions. If that is an omen for the nature of his administration, the new black pope may find himself clashing with the regular Pope, who has reaffirmed that ultimate authority lies with the Vatican...
...late 2006, Saltsman has been doing the job of a dozen people. He sets national strategy, helps write the ads and raise the money, approves every expense?and even plays body man at events, clearing Huckabee's way through the crowd. Over the months, he has earned his boss's respect. "I would say he has been right virtually all the time," Huckabee says...