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In a town that worships political power and protocol--especially at the high levels at which O'Connor has been operating for the past 24 years--the Arizona ranch girl, who grew up dreaming not of being the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court but of running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Broker | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

Yes, Dixfield, the town known best for its singular motto: “It’s the only one.” Words I am finding germane to describe most things I have encountered as I let time slip slowly by during my summer away at camp.

Author: By Matthew A. Busch, | Title: Bucolic Bacchanalia | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

Paul Gilligan, my brother Daniel Seltzer and I used to joke, was the ultimate “golden boy.” It was an expression Dan and I had coined at Harvard, mostly for Paul, to describe someone who was the apple of his family’s eye...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, | Title: In Memoriam: The Golden Boy | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

As a graduate student at the University of Southern California in the mid-1980s, the CEO of China's third largest oil company remembers seeing Union 76 signs plastered all along America's Left Coast--emblems of California's car-crazed lifestyle. For Fu Chengyu, then a poor student from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China Is Buying | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

For all Rosenthal's achievements, however, his autocratic management style caused increasing internal strife. Staffers describe him as an emotional, capricious and sometimes vindictive boss. When Science Reporter Richard Severo tried to sell a book based on his Times reporting to an outside publisher, he suddenly found himself handling minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Power Shift Within the Kingdom | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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