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...Bush's Brave Words...
...Kodak's management] was sloppier than we wanted it to be," says Perez. "We were looking for accountability. We organized the company so it was very clear who was responsible for what." Perez also had to find the right people to--as Carp puts it--"teach" Kodak about the brave new world it was entering. Many have come from outside--including seven of the 10 most recently appointed senior managers--though Carp himself joined Kodak as a statistical analyst 34 years...
...local newspaper called Wong "the female traitor to China," and a journal in Tianjin carried the headline: "Paramount Uses Anna May Wong to Embarrass China Again." Apparently not realizing that the villain Chang was a Communist, and Wong's Hui Fei, though a prostitute, was a brave Nationalist who kills Chang to save China, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government banned the film. Said Wong: "It's a pretty sad situation to be rejected by the Chinese because I am too American...
...Courage, sometimes, must be tempered with wisdom. That's the advice to candidates from one of the key Shiite parties contesting Iraq's election, in which the vast majority of the more than 7,000 brave souls who have put their names forward as candidates have, nonetheless, kept that fact a secret. Britain's Telegraph reports that leaders of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq have warned their party's candidates to keep their identity secret, avoid public places and stay home as much as possible...
...Some Other Ideas A number of our readers had their own thoughts about whom they would have selected as TIME's Person of the Year. From Barcelona came this suggestion: "A better choice would have been a collage or mosaic showing the faces of the brave soldiers and innocent victims who have perished in the Iraqi conflict." A reader from the United Arab Emirates complained, "It bothers me that almost every U.S. President is named at least once as the Person of the Year. HOW ABOUT BEING MORE CREATIVE IN YOUR SELECTION?" And a Pennsylvanian asked, "How could you miss...