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...Acer's story is an inspirational one for other Taiwan electronics firms. Its strengths are flexibility and a willingness to buck conventional wisdom. While other PC companies were abandoning traditional sales channels to compete with Dell's Internet-based direct-sales model, Acer stuck with conventional distributors such as Ingram Micro. The strategy allowed Acer to reach larger markets without building a costly direct-sales infrastructure...
...willingness to mend her own fences (literally), and muck out the barn while she's at it, exhibits her belief in old-fashioned self-reliance. Her good-natured sensitivity in demonstrating this among many other virtues to her adolescent son (Corey Haim) shows her to be a late-model parent, liberal and humane...
...statistical model? Well, no one likes to be summed up as a stereotype. In fact, it was Senior Writer Lance Morrow who most cogently identified the essential quality that unites the TIME family: "I like the people who read the magazine," he says. "I like their savvy. I like their brains, even when they're disagreeing with me. I'm grateful for the intelligence of our audience, the classiness of its perception about things." Allows Gentalen: "That is the best description of TIME readers I've ever seen, and there is not a statistic...
Richardson, 47, a professor at Ohio State University, is married and says she has never served as anyone's Other Woman, old model or new. She got interested in the topic when one of her students, involved with a married man, asked about the research on the subject. "There wasn't any, so I did a study myself," says Richardson, who talked to 700 Other Women, 55 of them at some length...
...held political office, never made a fortune nor ruled a corporate empire. He had no use for the trappings of worldly power; his clout came from the urgency of his message and his unwavering moral courage. Of this century's heroes, the man he most closely resembled was his model, India's Mohandas K. Gandhi. Combining Christian idealism with Gandhi's principle of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. awakened the conscience of the U.S. and the world to the plight of America's blacks. More than any other single person, King was responsible for the endowment...