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Perhaps, in retrospect, Immelt should have dressed a little snazzier for his coming-out party last November. Despite the fact that he and his boss both showed up wearing the same casual outfit--slacks, sports jacket and blue open-collared shirt--Immelt isn't a Welch clone. Where Welch is known for a blowtorch temper, Immelt is low-key and understated--more likely to tease employees than scold them to get his point across. "If you, say, missed your numbers, you wouldn't leave a meeting with him feeling beat up but more like you let your dad down," says...
...along with personal spending; hair splitters will try to figure out how much of that was tax cuts/rebates, and how much of that went straight into the bank. Also, the ECB has a chance to cut rates (it's not shown nearly the desperation so far that Greenspan's outfit has) and some say the relatively strong euro makes that likely...
...heiress Nicky Hilton, 17, who, along with her older sister Paris, is known for going to swank parties dressed like a Dynasty character about to get dressed. "I don't think guys can tell the difference," she admitted. Nicky uses the tried-and-true method for determining whether an outfit is too outrageous: "If I'm wearing something too whatever, my mother will say something...
...China's, but hundreds of years were lost when the Confucians trumped the eunuch-explorers. "If the foreign expeditions had been sustained, the world would be very different now," says Kong Lingren, a 69-year-old former civil servant who is secretary-general of a quiet little outfit known as the Zheng He Research Association. "We could have conquered the world...
Perry Farrell knows the value of a weird rock-'n'-roll name. In the late '80s he fronted Jane's Addiction, the artsy Los Angeles punk-metal outfit. He christened his next group, Porno for Pyros, while flipping through a fireworks catalog. And when he started an eclectic summer music festival complete with freaky sideshow acts, he dubbed it Lollapalooza after hearing the absurd word in a Three Stooges short. Even his stage name is a word twist. Born Perry Bernstein, he renamed himself "peripheral": Perry Farrell...