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...Watergate, he concludes, "And I think unless you say it, you're gonna be haunted for the rest of your life." His tone is not threatening or maudlin, just the matter-of-fact prediction of someone who, in a conversation with a former U.S. president, is totally in command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Nixon Got Frosted: Capturing History | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Management in a Mess Detroit's corporate culture is obviously complicit in the industry's deterioration, just as it was guilty of creating an unparalleled manufacturing system decades earlier. The Detroit approach has been plan-command-control, stemming from that original control freak, Henry Ford. At GM, a management hierarchy that had been created by GM's master planner, Alfred P. Sloan, in the '20s - GM's first and most successful restructuring - was still functioning in the '80s. Management's job was to create the products, design the production system and provide solutions if there were problems. Everyone else followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Detroit's Last Winter? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Eastwood the director, commendably casting major roles from within the Hmong community, elicits a naturalness from his untutored young stars, though for a while you must take the performances on faith, as Walt learns to take the people. But Eastwood the actor is in total command, daring himself to new depths. You'll see a tough man cry--one of the few flourishings of tears in the Eastwood oeuvre. That unaffected emotion eventually informs the whole movie, making it a wrenching, rewarding experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Essence of Clint Eastwood | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...didn't have to do as much tapping on the Nintendo DS's $20 Personal Trainer: Cooking title, which responded to voice commands like "Continue" and "Last step." But the device mistook the sound of potatoes being chopped (for a tasty gratin) for a voice command and kept politely asking, "Excuse me?" and "What was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ditch the Cookbook: iPhone as Kitchen Helper | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Rodolfo de la Guardia García Former second in command at the Federal Investigative Agency

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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