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...years, many believed William Clay Ford Jr. to be predestined to reign behind Ford's trademark blue oval nameplate. Genteel, analytical and quietly shrewd, he's a Civil War buff with degrees from Princeton and M.I.T. He joined Ford in 1979 and performed admirably in numerous executive posts, from assembly to product planning to chairman of Ford Switzerland. But in 1994, when he was named chairman of the automaker's powerful finance committee (which oversees the purse strings), his ascension seemed more certain. That promotion required him to resign his operating role within the company, prompting his move...
...Senate hearing, Weber and Downey met privately with Judiciary Committee members, arguing that federal interference would stifle the high-tech industry's fabled spirit of innovation at the behest of a bunch of whining marketplace losers. A consulting outfit called the Strategic Alliance Group devised a clumsy plan to buff Microsoft's image by wooing consumer groups away from Nader's interventionist cabal, lobbying the six state attorneys general now looking into Microsoft and recruiting public officials deemed potentially sympathetic. "We could readily enlist [Wisconsin Governor] Tommy Thompson and others in a pro-Microsoft effort," says a memo leaked from...
...word about the pianist. He's big. Buff. With dreads. He sits lower at the piano than Glenn Gould did. It's often hard to count the "f"s in his fortes. That's Awadagin. In other words, after Maurizio Pollini's recital last month, it was "time for something completely different...
...appears to be an unlikely David to Microsoft's Goliath. He came under heavy fire last April for granting unconditional approval to Bell Atlantic's $23 billion merger with NYNEX, a deal that created a giant with 39 million phone lines from Maine to Virginia. But Klein, a music buff whose eclectic tastes run from Ray Charles to Puccini, takes no predictable view on enforcement either. He simply picks his targets as he sees them. "I'm not an ideologue or a crusader," he says. "Our principle is that any consumer should have a choice in what he chooses...
...with all things bright and Aquarian, it helps to have an open mind. There may be no scientific basis for homeopathy, but when you look into the eyes of Sailor, a buff-colored nine-year-old Persian mix, you want to believe. Three years ago, Sailor suffered from asthma and diabetes. Heavy-duty drugs had sapped her strength, and conventional vets recommended euthanasia. When her owner, Carley Alderman, brought her to Wynn's office, Sailor could hardly move. Wynn confirmed the diagnosis, then changed Sailor's treatment to a series of homeopathic pellets. The cat rallied. "She runs...