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...years ago, Duke brought in a sales-minded Texan to yank it into the new era. Alvis Swinney, vice chancellor of business development and marketing, works on everything from pricing strategies to focus-group studies of how people choose a hospital. But he's also known for wandering the medical center and advising doctors to upgrade their waiting rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doctor Is Out--Shooting A Commercial | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...second floor of the Duke Clinic, Dr. Ralph Snyderman is making rounds. That would be nothing special if he didn't run the place. Snyderman is chancellor of Duke University Medical Center, so for him to be looking in on patients is a bit like Bill Gates debugging code on a Windows program. Still, it's something he does one month every year, usually in June, like most other doctors at Duke. Right now he's checking on the progress of James McAllister, 73, who has a spinal tumor. McAllister is doing well enough to leave a high-cost intensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An M.D. as CEO Redraws the Big Picture | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...global scene, the wobbly Boris Yeltsin still sits in the Kremlin in a crumbling Russia, while the enduring German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been wobbled out of office in the most powerful country in Europe...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: News Through the Looking Glass | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Gerhard Schroder is the latest edition to a growing collection of good-looking and affable political leaders of Western democratic nations. He defeated a 300-pound man, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had spent 16 years in office, the longest period of single rule in Germany since Otto von Bismarck's reign over a century...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: The West's Wily World Leadership | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

...this question was an appropriate litmus test for Schroder's integrity or fitness for office, it may seem impressive that he could win by as wide a margin as he did--except for the fact that the new chancellor's necessary and sufficient selling point in Sunday's election was that he is not Helmut Kohl. Sixteen years is double the length of time any American president is allowed to serve (unless his predecessor resigns, of course) and was long enough to make people question whether or not democracy was still kicking in Germany...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: The West's Wily World Leadership | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

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