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...predicament: disillusioned with Bush's stewardship and serial scandals, many religious conservatives see a field in which their preferred candidates can't win, and those who can win include, for now, a politically elastic Mormon; the twice-divorced, pro-choice, gay-friendly former New York City Mayor; and a maverick who called conservative religious leaders "agents of intolerance" the last time he ran. "I think that this emerging change in mind-set, at least within significant segments of the Democratic Party, could pay tremendous dividends if the Republicans are foolish enough to nominate Rudy Giuliani," says Richard Land, the Southern...
...hosted a conference on bipartisan political solutions in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago and changed his party registration to unaffiliated a few days later, fueling persistent speculation (denied, so far, by him) that he might pull a Perot and make a third-party run as a billionaire maverick. Come November 2008, voters could be facing a Subway Series presidential race...
...That maverick streak comes naturally to the driven Yamanaka. Many Japanese scientists, even the best ones, can seem detached and dreamy. Though he has only worked in academia, Yamanaka by contrast has the no-nonsense air of the hybrid researcher/entrepreneur, a type that plays a big role in American stem-cell science. "He used to be an orthopedic surgeon, so he has a good sense in connecting his research to a practical application," says Yoshiki Sasai, a stem-cell scientist at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe. "He's like a venture [capitalist]. He couldn...
...many dismissed the new chief, a onetime local-TV weatherman who had risen steadily through the corporate ranks, as a lackey of the previous CEO, the notoriously difficult Michael Eisner, whose boldness was often considered an asset. Many inside and outside Disney questioned whether Iger, 56, had the maverick's instincts to run the storied company. Shareholders Stanley Gold and Roy Disney even filed a lawsuit to void his election by Disney's directors...
...Yeltsin: Hero or Opportunist? Boris Yeltsin: The Man Atop the Tank Yeltsin's Promise and Failure Russia's Maverick Boris Bounces Back Remembering Yeltsin Why Yeltsin Declared Himself Y2K Incompatible Who Should Be the Person of the Century? Boris Bribery Scandal? What Else Is New? Russia's Puppet Master Yeltsin's Fast-Break Generals Survival Of The Fittest Yeltsin Plays Roulette With Russia's Economy But Yeltsin Only Purges After He Drinks Free Fall: Russia in Crisis Surviving Yeltsin's 'Cold' Rescuing Boris The People Choose TIME Covers