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...long ago, many would have placed Enron's Ken Lay--innovative, daring--in the pantheon of American business. That such a judgment could be made by those not otherwise known for idiocy places our value system into question. The task of companies is to provide returns for investors and so create jobs and spread wealth. But by the '90s, top businessmen had become celebrities, writing books (or having them ghostwritten), gracing covers of magazines and preaching the wonders of American management and transparent accounting practices to companies in other countries. After Enron, the audiences overseas for heroes of glamour capitalism...
...pantheon of lookers with left hooks--a group that stretches from Brunhilde to the Powerpuff Girls--Sydney Bristow belongs in the geeky-but-cute niche. She's the assassin with dimples...
...George W. Bush, having been lifted up several notches in the presidential pantheon by a soaring performance in his last, unofficial State of the Union Address Sept. 20, didn't hit any new heights Tuesday night - but then again, Bush isn't an underdog anymore. And the mission of this speech wasn't to impress, merely to remind the nation how impressive he's been...
...hard to imagine a more cynical marketing ploy than the one Pantheon Books devised for Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's new work, which arrived in bookstores last week. In the transparent hope of stirring up a publicity-grabbing fuss, it gave the book a one-word title that happens to be the most odious racial slur in the English language. The scheme has already produced the desired effect, triggering a string of giddy newspaper articles. Among them: a New York Times profile in which Kennedy's editor, Erroll McDonald, gushed that his motive wasn't to boost sales...
...country are not about him. No scandals, no impeachments, no stain." Nor was the praise confined to Republicans: "I'm not a Bush fan, I voted for Gore, but clearly President Bush is the Person of the Year." And if some already put him in the presidential pantheon ("His leadership has inspired this country to come together like the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the dark days of World II"), most were simply grateful that "an average pol confronted the very difficult situation he found our nation in ... and did a great job"; "he did what many people...