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...mentioned no issues. The press ripped him for it. The next day, as he settled into the back of a black SUV, where Bloomberg radio was playing and a Bloomberg magazine was tucked into a seat pocket, Bloomberg dismissed those stories. "As long as they spell my name right, fine," he says with a shrug. "I've got to learn the issues, learn how to dialogue, learn the jargon," he admits. Former Mayor Ed Koch thinks Bloomberg is admitting too much. "That's the wrong thing to say," sighs Koch. "Running for mayor is not an on-the-job learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much For Gracie Mansion? | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...legal health. "If you do not have clear-cut differences, it is very difficult to justify laying off that person," says Paul Gregory, a Houston attorney who specializes in employment law. That's particularly true if the person had been told for years that his or her work was fine. "Part of the problem with rank and yank," Gregory says, "is that most managers were not trained to give honest evaluations, so no honest, critical history exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rank And Fire | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...blink watching Osment. He has a, well, sixth sense for the hint of ecstasy or despair in a glance. Inhabiting such a character, letting humanity seep into him: that's not artifice. It's a fine actor's art, and enough to make any mother love him. Not to mention his two fathers, Spielberg and Kubrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'A.I.' — Spielberg's Strange Love | 6/17/2001 | See Source »

...paper products and pet supplies. Clearly, some female shoppers respond to food designed with their nutritional needs in mind. But do they really need to buy special oatmeal just because they were born with an extra X chromosome instead of a Y? "Somehow as a gender we've done fine for thousands of years without our own breakfast cereal," says Alice Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Food Of One's Own | 6/17/2001 | See Source »

...that end, "Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships," would be a fine book to give to your relatives who don't read comix, or as an alternate introduction to the classics for teenagers. And since "Age of Bronze" gets published in chapter format as a regular comicbook, you can continue to enjoy the work without waiting for the next big volume. (The first issue of the second volume should be arriving soon.) You almost pity poor Eric Shanower. By the end of this first book a priest prophesies the Trojan war to last nine years. At the rate Shanower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gods Have Prophesied Nine Years | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

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