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...stratagem: leading high officials on a tour of Shenzhen and Zhuhai, his prosperous economic enclaves. Nearly deaf by now, he urged Chinese to "seize the opportunity" of such go-go, free-market examples. The result was an explosion of economic growth and the elevation of "Deng Xiaoping Thought" to gospel, an ironic turn for a man who shuddered at "cults of personality." But it was the final somersault he had to perform to ensure the survival of his legacy...
Last month Barnevik gave up the title of chief executive officer he had held since he created ABB in 1988 by fusing Sweden's Asea with Switzerland's BBC Brown Boveri. Though he will remain a strong presence at ABB, the move will give him time to preach his gospel of East-West economic cooperation to skeptical politicians, labor leaders and business executives. "This is something very close to my heart," he says. "If we can combine the low wages in the East with the high skills in the West, we can revitalize Europe." Barnevik believes the West...
...Fireman, a fierce competitor, chickened out of publicly responding to CalPERS. That, I think, is a measure of how powerful money managers have become and why CalPERS needs to be more careful about whom it puts on the list. It has become closely watched and uniformly accepted as investment gospel. Not only is it a public embarrassment to be singled out (Time Warner, this magazine's owner, was a target in 1992 and 1993), but people are making decisions based on the list. Kayla Gillan, general counsel at CalPERS, says Reebok was chosen last summer--before its recent stock surge...
...novelist Elmore Leonard's Touch. Played by Skeet Ulrich, he has done time in the wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure the incurable by the laying on of hands. Otherwise, though, he's a cool dude. He likes girls, shows no particular interest in spreading any sort of gospel and turns a politely bemused face toward the hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts to drift out of the rehab center where he has taken refuge...
...know a lot of brothers who cannot dance, and I know a lot of Jewish blues singers," said Jones, 70, who began his career as a gospel singer and worked his way up in the jazz world with such notables as Ray Charles, playing for troops during World...