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Mike was intense and brilliant; he had a persistent devotion to excellence that was unusual by even the most stringent criterion. At the debate camp we attended in Colorado, he worked harder than anyone else and earned its highest recognition, the pretentiously-titled Philosopher King award. Nothing made Mike prouder than to see his efforts rewarded with recognition; he set high standards for himself and usually exceeded them triumphantly...
...rule, hundreds of thousands of bright, gifted young Serbs fled the war and the poverty to start a new life somewhere else. Djelic is one of the few who has come back. Though he looks a bit like an overgrown schoolboy in a business suit, he has had a brilliant career in France and the United States. After graduating as a top student from France's élite Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he collected two M.B.A.s from Harvard and a third from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He then spent several years helping...
Congratulations for a principled stand, but also for your brilliant strategy in upholding the dignity and professionalism of The Crimson. Horowitz has embarassed a number of campus papers that were afraid to publish his controversial views or that capitulated to mob rule by apologizing for having run the ad. The Crimson should be proud of its decision...
Director Steven Soderbergh gives us a brilliant series of intertwining vignettes about the performance-enhancing drug trade in the Sydney Olympics. Benicio Del Toro is a conflicted, street-smart International Olympic Committee official who tries and fails to deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...
...That's how we found Paul in 1994. My predecessor Chris Redman persuaded him to become one of the founding members of Time's newly decentralized European edition. Paul created the picture operations from scratch, recruiting a brilliant staff, including associate picture editor Maria Wood, and continuing the magazine's distinguished photojournalistic tradition - with a distinctly European focus. "For me the challenge was to know my magazine," says Durrant. "And to make sure the photographers understood it as well." He more than met the challenge, organizing photographs and photographers from Jutland to Johannesburg, Moscow to Madrid. As he says...