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...premillennium rapture teachings remind me of '60s guru Timothy Leary's aphorism, "Tune in, turn on, drop out." Only now the opiate of bad theology has replaced drugs. Why work to redeem the culture for Christ if you believe it is only going to get worse and that will hasten the Rapture? Wake up! We do not know when Christ will return, so let's get back to the work at hand. ERIC LAHR Atlanta...
Fields acknowledges that "I'm not an engineer," and says he expects to have "much more of a business influence than a product influence." Indeed, PAG's new design chief, Peter Horbury, will report not to Fields but to Ford's design guru J Mays. Fields is expected to jack up volume, which will mean pushing harder into the entry luxury market, as Jaguar is doing with its X-Type. And he will have to make more raids of the Ford parts bin. Ford has reportedly killed Jaguar's plan, championed by Reitzle, to develop a platform for its next...
SABEER BHATIA Voice-Messaging Guru...
...founded ImClone, a little-known company until it made headlines for an apparent success with a cancer treatment called Erbitux in 1999. Waksal, 54, was always as much salesman as scientist and employed his reputation and charm as a ladder into elite circles that included home-decor guru Stewart, Mick Jagger, actress Mariel Hemingway, financier Carl Icahn and Dr. John Mendelsohn, the cancer-drug pioneer and former Enron board member. Waksal's eclectic posse combined science and celebrity with stock-market speculation. It was an intoxicating lifestyle that the ImClone chief apparently savored...
...watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." Beckett does emphasize, however, that the monetarism that became Chile's economic creed under Pinochet, and Britain's under Thatcher, was imported from the University of Chicago. Economist Milton Friedman, who was to become a guru to future Thatcher adviser Alan Walters, "rejected the socially conscious economics that had dominated the thinking of democratic governments since the Great Depression of the 1930s," writes Beckett. Under Pinochet and Thatcher, emphasis on the rough-and-tumble of the free market "had unpleasant implications for the trade unions, the poor...