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Deng's famous proclamation is usually interpreted as a defense of pragmatism. But it can just as easily be applied to his idea of leadership: not a cult of personality but a test of efficiency. The bottom-line challenge for his chosen heir, Jiang Zemin, is to prove he can carry on Deng's pragmatic work...
Places like Price Club and Tuesday Morning allow them to do just that--to buy what they can't afford at prices they can. This preserves the prestige factor while simultaneously protecting the pocketbook of America's most appearance-conscious class. What an odd heir to the Protestant Ethic...
...boss was Edgar Bronfman. Heir to the Seagram spirits business, he had devoted his early years to building the company founded by his father into a multibillion-dollar empire. Only when his ardently Zionist father died in 1971 did Edgar rediscover his faith. For the past 20 years, he has expended much of his formidable energy and much of his time on the activities of the World Jewish Congress. Bronfman first transformed the relatively passive fund-raising charity into a prime mover of Jewish causes. He has personally bankrolled much of the organization's work and used his stature...
...begins next week. That's when the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor union and the Democrats' biggest organized constituency, gathers for its annual conference. The featured entertainment: back-to-back speeches on Feb. 18 by Vice President Gore and House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, respectively, the heir apparent and the would-be spoiler in the coming battle to succeed Bill Clinton...
...just a happy coincidence that renewed enthusiasm for Star Wars has been steadily growing the past few years? That's what the skillful imagemakers at Lucasfilm claim. The renaissance began in 1991 with the publication of Heir to the Empire, an original Star Wars novel continuing the adventures of Luke Skywalker and company; it spent a total of 29 weeks on various New York Times best-seller lists. Like a trip wire on the zeitgeist, the novel provided the first glimmer of the public's fresh hunger for a franchise that had largely lain dormant since the mid-'80s. Indeed...