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...urbane couturier who defined American style by marrying comfort with elegance; of throat cancer; in New Preston, Conn. Among his signatures were striped sailor T shirts in fine fabrics and cashmere sweaters atop taffeta skirts as alternatives to evening dresses. The son of a hardware-store owner from Fort Wayne, Ind., Blass watched Carole Lombard movies and sketched New York City cocktail parties as a boy; later, he dressed--and befriended--such clients from the social elite as Nancy Reagan and Pamela Harriman...
...that brought real synergy to his disparate businesses. He had little patience for GE's vaunted Six Sigma quality-control doctrine, nor did he make enough investments in information technology. And he apparently didn't do a good job of nurturing a new generation of managers: retired chairman John Fort had to return as interim CEO last week. Some analysts think that in his passion for quick deals, Kozlowski often overpaid, most notably for CIT, which may fetch just half the $10 billion Tyco paid...
Apparently not. Late last week Tyco's interim CEO, Fort, emphasized that "Dennis is gone." Then he repeated it: "Dennis is gone." --With reporting by Daren Fonda/New York and Adam Zagorin/Washington
Burnett, 54, has always been a music-industry anachronism. Raised in Fort Worth, Texas, he arrived on the pop scene in 1975 as the guitarist in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, the backup musician who literally (at 6 ft. 7 in.) overshadowed a legend. In the '80s he became the lone Los Angeles songwriter to favor salvation over sin on a series of tough, moralistic solo albums. (Burnett and his wife, singer Sam Phillips, are devout Christians.) Burnett segued into producing and, while helming more than 40 albums for such artists as Elvis Costello and Counting Crows, became...
...create crowds of people in terminals who could be targets for attacks; the machines would be installed near terminal entrances and thus create huge congestion there. The devices would quickly become outdated, the letter adds, yet require big construction costs. The directors from airports including those in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Miami, San Francisco and Washington say the TSA's one-size-fits-all security system cannot--and should not--be carried out in the next seven months. For the first time, they call on Mineta to stop or slow the process immediately by getting Congress to back...