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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save Tyco? | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting the Beatles | 2/6/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Is in the Air | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendlier Skies | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

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