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...part, Perot became publicly critical of a management philosophy that, he believed, put too much of the burden of cost cutting on blue-collar workers while preserving such executive perquisites as private dining rooms and chauffeur-driven limousines. Chairman Smith fired back with some broadsides of his own. Perot's office, he complained to the Detroit Free Press, "makes mine look like a shanty-town. He has a Gilbert Stuart painting hanging on the wall." Said Smith: "[Perot] is a different type of guy than we are in GM. He is very independent. He is the type of guy that...
That is an incredible and somewhat ironic financial feat for the man known as the Boss, a Freehold, N.J., native who learned how to play the guitar by listening to the radio. In the eleven years since he first gained national attention, the bus-driver's son and blue-collar rock poet who sings of hard times, dying towns and stubborn dreams has become much more than a legendary performer. Bruce Springsteen, 37, is one of the most potent money-making machines in the history of entertainment. His earnings possibly eclipse even Michael Jackson's income, which derives from records...
...capital. But one look and you could tell they were poor peasants in unfamiliar city clothes. Their shirts all had identical shirt-box creases. One peasant, an apple grower named Liang Yumin, tugged at his neck throughout our conversation, fingering the piece of cardboard still tucked under his collar...
...weeks ago, the Qixia men contacted me again. Liang Yumin, the villager who had neglected to remove the cardboard from his collar six years ago, had committed suicide. Over the years, Liang had been jailed and beaten. Any time he needed help from a government bureau, he faced obstruction. Liang told a friend that he wished he had never run for office. He cursed himself for having been popular enough to win. With no end to the mistreatment in sight, Liang told one friend he was considering drastic measures. On Nov. 25, he killed himself by swallowing pills...
...most objective standards, was doing pretty well. I lived in an old building in majestic Harlem, with a lovely son and partner, and made a show of wearing a suit and fedora to a job that merely requested jeans and a collar. I had a joint bank account and dental insurance. Yet, on any given day, if you'd asked me about my greatest accomplishment, it invariably began with my second life-the one in which I was a seven-foot blue elf whose hobbies included firing crossbows, trapping wild boars and reenacting the video for Michael Jackson's "Billie...