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Button only does his sport on his terms. Such pickiness is perhaps the true mark of a legend...
...Such excess was more common in the ?80s, ?when Cap Weinberger was steam-shoveling cash into the defense industry,? says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. But even the 70 percent reduction in the defense budget since then hasn?t eliminated the problem. ?When you pay $76 for a screw, someone?s being screwed,? says Thompson, ?and it?s obviously the taxpayer...
There he quickly made his mark, restoring the city's crumbling infrastructure at the same time he was wooing foreign investors. He also cemented his reputation as a tough manager who didn't hesitate to dress down his subordinates in public. At one meeting, he noticed an official smoking an expensive brand of foreign cigarettes and demanded to know how he could afford them on his salary. At another, a bureaucrat reported that his department had increased production that month "around 5% or 6%." Zhu broke in: "Comrade Bureau Director...
...better to mark TIME's 75th Anniversary than by celebrating the leaders who have shaped this century and whose legacies will help shape the next? At a party last week in New York City, we asked some of TIME's cover subjects to talk about the people who had most influenced them. These speakers included President Clinton, author Toni Morrison, director Steven Spielberg, actress Mary Tyler Moore, statesman Mikhail Gorbachev, scientist James Watson and entrepreneur Bill Gates. Other notables toasted their heroes, including some of the 84 cover subjects who attended (for a list, see page...
...Americans want the media to have a camera and microphone placed between the sheets of all elected officials in order to monitor every single moment of their lives? This attitude debases democracy and shames America. MARK GREENTON Cleveland, Ohio...