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...blame some of this on General Electric legend Jack Welch, who in 2001 was given the use of a plush New York City apartment and epic amounts of other goodies upon retiring from the company - part of a hush-hush deal that came to light only after his ex-wife made it an issue in divorce proceedings. Welch later agreed to pay for his perks. But the Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a keen interest in undisclosed pay ever since, and two weeks ago proposed tough new disclosure rules. ?We?ll see all kinds of stuff? revealed this spring...
George W. Bush's entry for himself in some future history book? Actually, it was the President describing Abraham Lincoln last week during an epic 100-min. question-and-answer session with 9,000 soldiers and students at Kansas State University. Bush hastened to say he was not comparing himself with that iconic wartime President: "I would never do that." But that's how this President sees himself, according to friends. And last week he began reminding us, selling himself with more vim and certitude than at any other time since he was re-elected 15 months...
...Bill Ford, great-grandson of the auto company's founder, take on this responsibility when he could have left it to hired professionals? It helps to understand that he is a man of epic contradictions. His family practically invented the auto industry, not to mention blue-collar consumerism. Brilliant, cantankerous Henry Ford made the first mass-produced car, the Model T, and paid workers enough so they could afford to buy one. That makes great-grandson Bill industrial royalty: he comes from a competitive, dynastic clan that cannot be separated from the nameplate on your Mustang. But he also...
...ADAMS 29 Renowned for writing songs faster than most people have life experiences, Adams, 31, fills his third album in the past 12 months with nine lengthy tracks, each of which summarizes a year in his 20s. It's a conceit that at times elevates his self-pity to epic proportions (on The Sadness he wails, "The sadness is mine," over a flamenco guitar lick--¡qué melodramático!), but it also creates moments of immense tenderness as Adams says a reluctant goodbye to youth (Carolina Rain, Starlite Diner) and contemplates a commitment to something other than himself...
...balancing of these perspectives has been his gift ever since his second novel, tellingly called The Shadow Lines. His epic novel of 2000, The Glass Palace, excavated the imperial history of 19th century Burma in part to highlight the torn affections of an Indian in 1943, not sure whether to side with India, or against Britain, in the war. The theme of his most recent novel, The Hungry Tide, is, to some degree, its very setting: the swampy area of the Sunderbans, in west Bengal, now sea, now land, its shifting contours reflecting back to the uncertain allegiances...