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...there were ever a signal that women are ascending in corporate America, it came this month when Patricia Russo, above, left the heir apparent's office at Kodak to return to troubled Lucent Technologies as its CEO and rescuer in chief. Surveys show that more women are reaching the top rungs of the executive ladder than ever before: the number of FORTUNE 500 companies with female board members has jumped 25.8% since 1993. Sure, a few CEOs have had a hard time lately. But, ironically, that's just another sign of progress. As Julie Weeks, research director at the Washington...
...even before Nancy's books became international hits, the sisters were notorious; the "Mad, Mad Mitfords," the press loved to call them. Diana, a spectacular beauty, married an heir to the Guinness fortune but then jettisoned him to take up with Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of Britain's fascist party, which, Lovell says, made her "arguably the most hated woman in England." Just as scandalous was Unity, a close friend of Adolf Hitler's and so worshipfully devoted to him that she shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany (she survived with some brain damage; Hitler...
...almost always had a white trainer, we see the frontiersman in buckskin learning from the Indians how to best handle the dangers of the woods. In his chanting of doggerel before fights and speaking of himself as "so pretty" and "the greatest," he was heir to the charismatic insolence and humor that have always defined our national bad boys...
...love operating; I can't stand getting too far away from the business," he says. "The only downside," he told Levin, "is that when it's announced, my ego may be smarting a bit, only because there's been so much speculation that I'm going to be the heir apparent...
...unnamed, would help bring the nation out of a funk born of a years-long economic bust. Japanese did celebrate in the streets, but there was a hitch. Under current rules, only a male can be Emperor, and since Naruhito's brother has two daughters, there remains no legal heir to succeed Naruhito on the Chrysanthemum Throne. (Remember, folks, Japan's our ally, so this little gender-role eccentricity falls under "acceptable cultural differences.") There have, however, been eight Empresses in Japan's history, and the birth has renewed debate over changing the rules of succession again. But you haven...