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What does the N.Y.S.E. boss do? Grasso, 57, who has been chairman since 1995, won wide praise for his leadership after Sept. 11, 2001, but his main role in the 211-year-old exchange is essentially that of corporate hall monitor. Public companies can list their stocks anywhere, but 2,800 of them choose to do so with the N.Y.S.E., which maintains an old-fashioned trading floor for the purpose. (Trading is electronic at the NASDAQ.) The broker-dealers who make trades are members of the exchange, and Grasso enforces the rules they must follow to keep their spots. Recent...
...Sonatine (1993): Kitano gets existential in his portrayal of a burned-out yakuza boss shipped off to Okinawa. Despite his ennui, Kitano rouses himself to massacre everyone in sight...
...calm, bearded 53-year-old I met at his Gaza home had bodyguards at his doors who impounded my cell phone before I got close to the boss. Abu Shanab was outspoken in his passionate support of violence. "The military wing is central to our resistance," he said. "They are more powerful than us, but we couldn't stand still to what Israel does to us without any reaction. We are sending the message that we are refusing to be occupied. Military victory is not possible, but the only alternative is surrender." When I asked how martyrdom advanced Hamas' aims...
Alistair Campbell, Prime Minister Tony Blair's powerful communications director and the man accused of "sexing up" the British case for going to war in Iraq, did his best last week to defend himself and his boss. He appeared to be smooth and understated at the investigation into the apparent suicide of David Kelly, the former government weapons expert who shared with a BBC reporter his doubts about the government's case for war, got dragged before parliamentary committees and then took his own life. Campbell had a denial ready for the central question of whether he had influenced...
Eddy is equally impressed by Augenblick. "If I have a big emotional challenge--anything from a problem with a boss to a girlfriend I don't understand to worrying about what I should do with my life--Amy is the friend I most want to talk to," he says. "She's unbelievably insightful...