Word: loyalism
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Whitman credits eBay users, to whom she's fiercely loyal, sometimes fielding their questions by e-mail. "I don't feel like I preside over anything because it is truly the community of users who have built this company," she says. A Princeton economics major with a Harvard M.B.A., Whitman speaks in measured sentences, but her easygoing nature and sense of humor are evident, even when she reveals a foible: after having kicked her coffee habit for nine months, she admits she's hooked again. "Unfortunately, I'm back on caffeine," she says, laughing. And the whole company can feel...
...bifocaled septuagenarian managed to get French ladies in a flutter. From his days as an ambitious young printer in Philadelphia to his years as a diplomatic superstar in France, Ben Franklin surrounded himself with adoring women, often much younger, usually attractive and preferably intelligent. For the most part, his loyal wife Deborah tolerated these dalliances. As she probably knew, most were never consummated. In fact, Franklin was a master of what the French call amitie amoureuse, whose English translation, amorous friendship, gives only a hint of its true meaning: a delicious form of intimacy, expressed in exchanges of teasing kisses...
...life of so much accomplishment, Benjamin Franklin had his most devastating disappointment in his son William's choice to remain loyal to the King during the American Revolution. "Nothing," he said at war's end, "has ever hurt me so much...as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son." Loyalists comprised some 20% of the white American population in the colonies during the war, and their ranks included men and women, rich and poor, immigrants and native-born. But Benjamin chose to reject his mother country, and his son chose to disobey his father. Benjamin...
...will. William sailed from his native country in 1782 for exile in England. "I must resign myself," William wrote, "for the remaining Days of my Existence to that Solitary State which is most repugnant to my Nature." The elder Franklin had raised his son to be a loyal servant of the British Crown. He had done his job too well...
...former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; in London. Often satirized as a comic, golf-obsessed gin swiller, the retired oil executive handled his job as the First Mate of Britain's first female Prime Minister with aplomb, happily trailing behind his wife in public yet privately acting as a loyal consort and critical influence. He was, he once said, the most "shadowy husband of all time...