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Stonesifer, the mother of two small children, has made a career of solving problems. After joining Microsoft in 1988, she transformed tiny Microsoft Press into a strong technical publisher and later reorganized the company's product-support department. When she arrived in 1991, customers were kept on hold for an average of 20 minutes. By the time she left, the average wait was down to 60 seconds...
...then Calvin Klein, more than any other major designer, has maintained a keen sense of mass-cultural tastes. He has kept his position as a beloved clothier of urbane working women, all the while forging a lucrative star status at the mall with his CK, fragrance and underwear divisions. With the launch of his jeans line in 1978, he became one of the first designers to put Vogue-world cachet within reach of ordinary consumers. In the process he helped strip fashion of its elitism; now countless designers offer lower-end lines...
Some of what has been emanating from the Dole camp lately, however, appears to be a sort of smoke screen. Campaign aides have let word get around that the candidate's forthcoming economic program will feature sweeping tax cuts. That has kept Republican supply-siders quiet but exposed the candidate to some heavy hits for supposedly abandoning his 35-year devotion to budget balancing. Democratic Senator James Exon of Nebraska, for example, jeers that Dole is becoming a "tax-cut candy man." Such sneering is at best premature. Much of it has been based on a 14-page memo from...
...Robert] Kennedy fell...The gun, waving wildly, kept pumping bullets, and found five other human targets. Eight men in all, including Rafer Johnson, an Olympic champion, and Roosevelt Grier, a 300-lb. Los Angeles Rams football lineman, attempted to overpower the slight but lithe assailant. Johnson finally knocked the pistol out of the stubborn hand [and together with Grier held the suspect] spread-eagled on the counter. Several R.F.K. supporters tried to kill the man with their hands. Johnson and Grier fended them off. Someone had the presence of mind to shout: 'Let's not have another Oswald!' Johnson pocketed...
...poverty, corruption and crime." Over the course of his campaign, Yeltsin promised different constituencies a sum totalling more than the Russia's 1996 GDP, and last week he paid uncompensated teachers with $1 billion he acquired by raiding the Central Bank's currency reserves. He and his cohorts kept up an unrelenting barrage of anticommunist rhetoric, prophesying that civil war and general catastrophe would accompany a Communist win. "Many voters were apprehensive," says Donnelly. "They feared that a Zyuganov victory would mean another round of changes, and upheavals. Most Russians are tired of changes and revolutions, and see that under...