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...Welch joined GE as a junior engineer in 1960 but quit after a year, tired of GE's bureaucracy, to head to International Minerals & Chemicals in Skokie, Ill. If not for the intervention of a superior who was impressed with the young Welch, the futures of GE and Welch might have looked very different...
...They gave up their own up-front fees, persuaded cast members like Affleck to take pay cuts and canceled traditional studio-movie goodies like a wrap party and jackets for the crew. "We joked that this was the most expensive independent movie ever made," says Bay, who threatened to quit several times over budget and ratings issues. (He wanted an R to depict the horrors of war; Disney wanted PG-13 to get more teens in the seats.) Still, he trimmed the price to $145 million on the orders of Joe Roth, who was then head of the studio. When...
...Court More than 30 years after striking workers were gunned down in Baltic Sea shipyards, the man accused of ordering troops to open fire, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, appeared in court. He was charged, along with nine others, with responsibility for the deaths of 44 workers. After Jaruzelski's lawyers quit on Thursday the trial was postponed until June 19 for new lawyers to take on the defense...
...Johnson, who with buddy Andrew Golden killed four kids and a teacher when they attacked their Jonesboro, Ark., school with an arsenal of weapons in 1998, has severed contact with him. Mitchell told his mother that his father said to him on the phone, "You're the reason I quit praying" and hung up. After T.J. Solomon of Conyers, Ga., shot and wounded six classmates with a sawed-off shotgun in 1999, his mother demanded to know why he hadn't blasted himself. "You were going to kill yourself, I understand. How did that not happen?" she asked him just...
...wall outside my office is a gallery of portraits of the correspondents who helped make TIME what it is. There they are, interviewing Presidents, traveling with guerrillas, crossing wild rivers in dugout canoes; talking to champions and losers who won't quit; trying to figure out how to send in their reporting from areas torn apart by war. And every week, as I look over their shoulders, I feel as if I am in that car with Ruther Batuigas, granted the extraordinary privilege of tagging along to go where the action is. At those moments, as deadline approaches and stories...