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...fashioned values he learned as a student. "Humility, service and lifting the human spirit work as well in the boardroom as they do in the classroom," he said. That same week his flamboyant predecessor at Tyco, a sprawling $37 billion conglomerate, was sitting through his trial in a Manhattan courtroom on charges of looting the company of $600 million. Kozlowski, whose extravagance became legendary after he left Tyco in June 2002--remember the $6,000 shower curtain?--had to listen as former assistant Mary Murphy admitted that she had been having an affair with him, even as she agreed...
...editors had assured me, a dream assignment. And I, as a 26-year-old trainee in TIME's Washington bureau, was lucky to get it. Maybe so. But then why was I shivering alone on a corner of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on this cold February night? The subjects I was supposed to be covering were ensconced 12 floors above me in the Plaza Hotel, encircled by a cadre of security gargoyles dedicated to making sure that neither I nor anybody else got anywhere near them. I'd been tracking them all day, but even the few quotes and details...
...Speaking of Dean, you asked if the country is "willing to elect a Brahmin who grew up in wealthy East Hampton, New York, and on Manhattan's Park Avenue, who brings virtually no national-security experience to a post-9/11 nation ..." I ask if the country is willing to re-elect Bush, a Brahmin who grew up the son of a rich politician with a summer estate in Maine, who had no national-security experience when he entered office and who has effectively turned much of the world against the U.S. since 9/11. I'd take the Brahmin doctor...
...YORK CITY: Bigup Worldwide Perch 320m above the city on the Empire State Building's observatory while a plane spells out sweet nothings-to your loved one and everyone else in Manhattan. From...
...jets, live satellite TV and consumer-friendly policy of never bumping a passenger have significantly raised customer expectations of low-fare carriers. Its clever marketing campaign drew passengers who in the past might have shunned off-brand airlines. Indeed, the densest concentration of JetBlue passengers can be found in Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side. The airline, which has 214 flights to 22 cities and carried 9 million passengers last year, is likely to qualify as a major airline this summer when its revenues are projected to top the $1 billion threshold. But Wall Street analysts have begun to wonder...