Word: chieftain
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...Microsoft's William H. Gates III or Intel's Andrew S. Grove, not Walt Disney's Michael D. Eisner or Berkshire Hathaway's Warren E. Buffett, not even the late Coca-Cola chieftain Roberto C. Goizueta or the late Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton has created more shareholder value than Jack Welch," business writer John A. Byrne wrote...
...wonders include the giant ramparts of the fortress known as the Ark, the banded patterns of the dizzying 47-m high Kalan minaret and the delicate brickwork of the Ismail Samani Mausoleum. They were among the few structures to survive Genghis Khan's passing. From the minaret, the Mongol chieftain ordered the destruction of everything around him, declaring: "I am God's punishment for your sins." The crumbling Ark (entry 60) has an equally dark history. From the square in front, 19th century ruler Nasrullah Khan oversaw the executions of thousands. Behind is the Zindon jail, where prisoners were kept...
...with degrees in politics and law, become a naturalized Japanese citizen and legally changed his name to Obara. Once he had expunged his Korean lineage, Obara, with his wealth and his educational background, could have entered the nation's ruling élite, becoming, perhaps, a top bureaucrat or corporate chieftain. Instead he became a man of his times, leading a desultory, undistinguished existence, punctuated by his disastrous forays into real estate speculation. He formed an investment company, Plant, in 1988, relatively late in the bubble cycle. When the economy collapsed, nearly taking Obara's assets with it, his mother...
...rare for a corporate chieftain to earn a place on a national ticket. And Cheney's years as head of an industrial giant that extracts natural resources and operates in unstable and undemocratic places would seem an inviting target. Right after George W. Bush gave Cheney the vice-presidential nod, traditionally Democratic supporters ranging from environmentalists to labor unions to plaintiffs' lawyers were sharpening their knives. "Cheney's record at the company is not well known but will be scrutinized very closely," predicted former Congressman Lee Hamilton, a moderate Democrat. "Politically, this becomes a very important matter...
...reason to deprive them of it. Particularly strong was the appetite for historical works in which stern Antiquity framed the goddess Pornography. By far the hottest example of the genre here is a fabulous piece of kitsch by Paul Jamin, Brennus and his Loot, 1893, showing a barbarian Gallic chieftain gloating over his spoils from the sack of Rome. They include five naked, rosy-nippled girls, writhing on the floor in postures of submission and despair; all-conquering Brennus surveys them with the Bertie Wooster grin of a boulevardier entering a whorehouse. This is archaeology with...