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Though he claims to chafe when his competitors make cracks about his "rug merchant" bargaining methods and his "Mediterranean" temperament, Hayek nonetheless displays what he describes as "an exaggerated amount of self- confidence. I want to look in my mirror every morning and say, 'You're great.' " His strength as a businessman, Hayek says, is that he has retained "the fantasy of a six-year-old child. If you can keep and use the curiosity of a child, you can only improve everything around you." He describes his talent as being able to spot new ways of selling "emotional" products...
...chief immediately dispatched 300 | officers in riot gear to the scene, where they quelled the melee with rubber bullets. "At least he grabbed the bull by the horns," commented a 27-year officer at his retirement party. Yet the police force suffers from poor morale, and most officers still chafe at Williams' attitude that the police are public servants rather than a repressive force. Some thoughtful cops recognize the problem. "The public has to remember that we are their police force," says homicide detective Rick Wermuth. "If they don't recover some confidence in us and return some support...
...Diller's attention to detail and tight hand on the purse strings. "He was a very conservative manager," says Murdoch. "He would arm-wrestle movie producers for months." But after Murdoch moved to Los Angeles and started taking a more active role in his entertainment company, Diller began to chafe. "I never really felt I worked for Rupert Murdoch," he says. "I made decisions as if I owned the place." A turning point came at a News Corp. board meeting in the summer of 1991, when Diller made some suggestions that seemed to be ignored. "I had the feeling...
Fukuyama asks "whether, in the long run, human beings are really made happy by the sacrifice of their individuality." Young and better-educated Singaporeans chafe at the petty restrictions and ruling-party patronizing. "Lee Kuan Yew thinks we are basically stupid," says law professor Walter Woon, a rare establishment critic...
Some of Reich's critics target him personally as a "self-promoter" and "pamphleteer" -- in part, no doubt, out of resentment of his productivity and fame. These chafe many economics professors because Reich, often described as an economist, does not hold a degree in that subject. He received his degrees at both Dartmouth and Oxford in interdisciplinary studies -- history, philosophy, politics, economics -- and earned a law degree from Yale. Despite * his decade of teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Reich is not a tenured professor; nor, friends say, has he sought that title. With characteristic wit, he pens...