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Smiling broadly and looking dapper in a powder blue shirt, pin-striped suit and bright red tie, Renault ceo Carlos Ghosn doesn't look like your typical corporate hatchet man. Back in 1999, however, Ghosn was dubbed the "samurai" and "cost killer" at Nissan Motor in Japan. As the newly appointed president, he began closing plants, slashing over $20 billion in debt, and eliminating over 20,000 jobs to turn the moribund company profitable. Many observers - especially unions - expected similar tough love in early February, when Ghosn unveiled his ambitious four-year business plan for Renault, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Driver's Seat | 2/25/2006 | See Source »

...season by taking at least two of the final four games. By winning all four, the Crimson can also tie the school’s all-time mark for most Division I victories, with 16—although that would mean a road sweep of the Killer P’s, something Harvard has not accomplished since...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Harvard Playing for Pride, Not Title | 2/24/2006 | See Source »

...Maryland plans to incarcerate him until it's his time to testify. His biggest mistake, Chalmers says on the way to the same facility where his alleged attacker is being jailed, is ever having told the police the name of the man who robbed him. "That man is a killer," he says. "And now they're putting me in the same building as him. This is so wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Looking For A Few Good Snitches | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

While mobile e-mail fanatics are discussing the BlackBerry-killer software introduced by Microsoft at the 3GSM mobile-phone conference in Barcelona, I want to talk about an e-mail-ready phone that's just hitting the market - T-Mobile's SDA. The carrier launched it this week, along with a big brother, the MDA Pocket PC. Both phones run versions of Windows Mobile 5.0, though the SDA is no larger than a typical candy-bar phone. Like standard phones, it has no touch screen ? you operate it with buttons; unlike standard phones, it has an HTML browser, can juggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T-Mobile SDA Smartphone | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

...designers have even solved the problem of those infuriating little Barbie shoes. The Bratz feet are huge, and when you remove a shoe, the whole foot comes off with it, mildly grisly but much more practical. The dolls are a sisterhood, a rainbow coalition, and they come with killer accessories, like the sushi lounge with a karaoke stage, or the Lil' Gym with treadmill and exercise bike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret of Barbie's Rivals | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

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