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...many successful dealmakers possess an enviable skill set--vision, confidence, perseverance, focus, even empathy. Such qualities are the backbone of lasting success in any field, and to the extent they can be learned, we should all crave input. In A Passion to Win (Simon & Schuster), by Sumner Redstone with Peter Knobler, we go to school alongside one of the best. Redstone, a Boston nobody, took over his father's fledgling movie-theater operation and built it into Viacom, a global entertainment powerhouse with brands including MTV, Nickelodeon, Blockbuster, CBS and Paramount. This is his remarkable story, from a childhood...
...Peter Katel/ Tanque de Guadalupe. With reporting by Marion Lloyd/Veracruz
...from among their 1,100 fighters in the Sulu archipelago. As the body count mounted?by Saturday evening, scores of soldiers, civilians and rebels, including commander Yusup Nadjal, were lying dead on the roads and in the jungle, or expiring in a local hospital?the Abu Sayyaf stormed St. Peter's Catholic church and the hospital, placed snipers in the church belfry and on the hospital roof and announced they had taken 200 more hostages. "We are part of an Abu Sayyaf suicide squad," fighter Abu Sulaiman told local radio. "If you do not stop the military action, we will...
...CURRENT FAVORITE BOOK 'Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography' by Peter J. Conn Pearl Buck was a very interesting writer. I read "The Good Earth," like everybody else did probably in high school, but there are a lot of things about her that I didn't know. For instance, she started an adoption agency called the Welcome House, which was one of the first agencies that allowed Americans to adopt interracial children from all over the world...
...Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes says, “Every president of Harvard is chosen with a kind of implicit shopping list of things...