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...delegations of Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Failure is a very real possibility, and Ross, who will have to pick up the pieces, is keenly aware of it. But the U.S.'s top Middle East negotiator continues to search--in the words of his former boss Warren Christopher--for "glimmers of light...where most people can't see them...
...years later, Mouse has about 1,500 volunteers in its database and a budget of nearly $2 million a year. It has fully wired 38 inner-city schools, connecting some 75,000 kids to the Internet. Sarah Holloway, Mouse's executive director, says a worker who sweats alongside his boss, pulling cable in a public school, knows that they are after more than a fast buck. Says Holloway: "It is a bonding experience." Rasiej says that "a lot of CEOs approach me and take out their checkbooks. I tell them that's not what I am looking for." He wants...
These issues came into focus for me as I marveled at the extraordinary pay package unveiled last week for former GE executive Gary Wendt, the new boss at Conseco, whose high-profile divorce in 1997 became a test for the worth of a dutiful corporate wife. Some would say the position pays quite well, thank you. Lorna Wendt got $20 million in parting. Yet that's barely 15% of her estimate of her husband's net worth at the time. She has appealed and seeks an additional $35 million...
...where Hillary's grandfather worked 16-hour days in a lace factory and most of his relatives were "exhausted laborers, blistered farmers...drab loners, prudish spinsters, lonely bachelors, and sad drinkers." Her great-uncle George Beale Rodham was "an aberration in a family of underachievers," a second-tier political boss. The author suggests she inherited her skills from him. Other Rodhams ran "a fleabag hotel and a beer-and-gin-joint...in the heart of Scranton's infamous red-light district...
...provinces and a resurgence of regional identity--all aided by technological advances that offer workers and companies an unprecedented degree of mobility. "If you are a successful start-up in Bordeaux or Toulouse in the technology field," says economist and author Alain Minc, "the question for the boss is whether to stay in Toulouse or move to London, not Paris. Formerly, they had to go to Paris to be close to the banks and have a decent work force." "France no longer passes through Paris but through Alsace, Provence, Brittany," says journalist Yannick Le Bourdonnec, author of a book...