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Neeleman has raided rivals for employee-focused top executives, including COO Dave Barger, a key part of the team that turned around Continental Airlines. Neeleman lured chief financial officer John Owen from Southwest, "because there is no one else in the world who is better at buying airplanes and running a successful financial operation." For his people person, Neeleman chose the only executive who ever fired him. That was Ann Rhoades, who helped develop the airline industry's happiest employee group at Southwest. But in 1994 she pink-slipped Neeleman after Southwest bought Morris Air, another low-price airline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Skies | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...there was nothing effete about Mueller, a decorated Marine, who handled cases ranging from the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the prosecution of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. He smashed through bureaucratic obstacles so enthusiastically that his deputy, Dave Margolis, warned him gently that if he didn't forgo a few battles, Washington would smash him. "I don't bruise easily," Mueller replied. The 56-year-old prosecutor is going to need his thick skin. Last week, when George W. Bush nominated him to succeed Louis Freeh as director of the FBI, Mueller prepared to take over an organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI's Top Gun | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

Tonight's meeting is filled with characters. A young earth mother carrying her newborn in a hip sling hands out oatmeal cookies; moments later, a bunch of yahoos heckles the moderator, asking for equal time. Observing from the sidelines is Dave Hill, vice president of the Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association, representing powerful logging interests like Boise Cascade, which hopes to derail the monument. "We'd just like to narrow the area to the significant features that warrant monument designation," says Hill. Contrasting sharply with both the big-money forestry firms and the well-organized Greens, a ragtag crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Logging: Free-For-All In A Forest | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...thing is certain--if even a single inch is taken away from the monument's boundaries, activists like Dave Willis will give no quarter in their battle to protect the forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Logging: Free-For-All In A Forest | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...smaller than a proton" came from, who put it there and what started its expansion some 15 billion years ago. The reason they don't tackle that ultimate question is that seeking the answer always leads to something they can't photograph, measure or make up equations for--God. DAVE REISER Palatine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 16, 2001 | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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