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Yasser Arafat likes his helicopters. Real leaders, military leaders especially, get around by helicopter, and nothing suited the style of the khaki-clad Palestinian boss better than dropping in and out of places with a backdrop of rotors loudly beating, whipping up the air. Choppering between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Arafat's two disconnected realms, had the added advantage of sparing the Palestinian leader the humiliation of passing through Israeli checkpoints on the ground below...
...main political figure in Gaza. Last week he slipped underground to evade the Palestinian Authority sweep. Khaled Meshal, the man the Mossad poisoned in Amman in 1997 and whose life was then saved by Jordan's King Hussein, stays permanently out of reach. He is the organization's overall boss, but he gives his orders from safe havens in Syria and Qatar. Mousa Abu Marzook, who was forced out of the U.S. and then Jordan, is a political leader from his base in Syria...
...Winners BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Boss gives poor New Jerseyans $1 million. But no matter how much he does, he can't change the fact that they're still stuck in Jersey EUAN BLAIR PM's son gets homework help from Defense Ministry. If our dad was PM, we'd get way better perks?like "borrowing" MI6's hover Porsche MARK SHUTTLEWORTH South African mogul set to be second space tourist. He'll boldly go where no man with a net worth of less than $1 billion has gone before Losers DEAN KAMEN Inventor's top-secret scooter "Ginger" elicits yawns...
Just then, Kamen rides up and hands his Segway over to Bezos. As the Amazon boss races madly around the warehouse, hooting and cackling and flapping his arms, someone yells out, "Yo, Jeff, what were you saying about the consumer market?" Whizzing past, Bezos shouts back, "There's definitely at least a consumer market...
...JERRY LEVIN AND STEVE CASE Given the big egos of CEOs, it's no surprise that when companies merge, one boss usually departs. But since the creation of AOL TIME WARNER in January 2000, chairman Steve Case, 43, and CEO Jerry Levin, 62, have shown a unity of purpose at odds with the B-school case studies. It helps that they share a vision: subscriptions. Add up AOL, cable TV and magazines, and they have 137 million people mailing in payments. This year the duo clung for too long to profit promises they couldn't keep. But as they direct...