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...himself before her statues. Since the shooting occurred on the anniversary of the 1917 apparition of the Virgin near Fatima in Portugal, he was convinced he owed his life to her. He made a pilgrimage of thanks to Fatima, and the near fatal bullet was fitted into a jeweled crown worn by her statue. In 1983, out of the same wellspring of faith, emerged an act of stunning virtue: his forgiveness of Agca in the would-be assassin's jail cell...
...likeability isn't necessarily a required characteristic for the corner-office job. But could CEO Michael Eisner, for example, have been more effective as a manager at Disney if he had been friendlier? Tim Sanders, a Yahoo! executive and author of the new self-help manual The Likeability Factor (Crown; 220 pages), thinks so. "Good things happen to you in business when you're emotionally attractive," insists Sanders...
...chairman of Sony, as a prime example of likeability's triumphing. "He's funny, he's irreverent, he's playful," says Sanders, who has worked with Stringer. "In the end, he won the hearts of the Japanese executives at Sony. That's why they gave him the crown, much to the surprise of the world...
This season, Stone is looking for a new crown to add to her mantelpiece, already adorned with the 1999 AWCHA national championship from a squad that posted a remarkable 33-1 record and knocked off New Hampshire in the title game...
...honored with the ECAC Coach of the Year Award, picking up her third Ivy League title, fourth ECAC regular season crown, third ECAC tournament title, and seventh Beanpot...