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...this year alone include besting rival financier Wilbur Ross in a bidding war for textile firm WestPoint Stevens, forcing stock buybacks at energy firm Kerr-McGee and drug firm Mylan Laboratories, and (with a stunning 77% of the vote) landing three seats on the board of Blockbuster, the video chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up the Heat | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...chief engineer for solar-systems exploration. "The depth in the process of building the next generation to go where no one has gone before was a little bit broken." The money spigots opened up again in the '90s, but by then there were gaps in the lab's history chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Management Tips From the Real Rocket Scientists | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

...care about my opinion on this or that piece of music or film? How much do I not belong in the arts elite at Harvard, you might ask? Even if you might not, here’s how much: I played high school sports, I don’t chain smoke, nearly half of my sweaters sort of fit me, and I am not a vampire...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles and Abe Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Sally Forth, Young Men | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...don’t mean to stereotype, or, better said, I do mean to, but I don’t mean it when I do. Mostly, I need to start wearing a black turtleneck and chain-smoking Pars that I keep in a wine glass...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles and Abe Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Sally Forth, Young Men | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...negotiator Richard] Holbrooke to listen." But Hill's real talent may be the trust he can inspire in those who matter. In the Korean talks, he has been given a long leash by U.S. President George W. Bush and Rice. Hill forged an unlikely bond with his rough-edged, chain-smoking Chinese counterpart Wu. Though he doesn't normally smoke, Hill bummed cigarettes from Wu during breaks, and impressed him by producing perfect smoke rings, a skill he'd picked up as a young Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. Hill, too, came to admire Wu for his intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Keep Talking | 9/26/2005 | See Source »

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