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...plans to run it next. Among uber-Blairites there is talk of running a stop-Brown candidate for party leader, but that's near hopeless. Brown has a lock on the job. Once he gets it, he will have a problem similar to Al Gore's as he ran to succeed Bill Clinton as president in 2000: how to differentiate himself from a boss who, whatever his present weaknesses, has been a phenomenal success as a politician, and with whom he has few serious policy disagreements. "Obviously, Brown has to have an agenda both of continuity and of change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Tony Blair's Downfall | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

...Bill Ford, who ran the automaker for the last five years, certainly realized the gravity of the situation, which explains why he brought in Mulally. At Boeing, Mulally had a reputation as an ace engineer and turnaround guy. He helped develop hit models like the 777 jetliner, launched in the early '90s, and the 787 Dreamliner, expected in 2008. After plane orders plummeted following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mulally stabilized the commercial aircraft division, which is now earning handsome profits. Nor has he shied from downsizing. Under his reign, Boeing's commercial division layed off 30,000 workers, shuttered factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford Motor's New Chief: "I Think It's a Tough Situation" | 9/6/2006 | See Source »

...weren't surprised this story ran absolutely everywhere, from USA Today to the Hindustan Times - who doesn't enjoy debating whether boys or girls are weaker? It seemed fitting that the story landed the same day that Billie Jean King, victor over Bobby Riggs in the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes," was crowned with her name on the National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of Dubious Teaching Secrets | 9/5/2006 | See Source »

...reams of data the College Board included with the new scores was some wonderful news: I was wrong. In 2003 I spent six months tracking the development of the new SAT. I sat through hours of test-development sessions and even learned how to grade SAT essays. TIME ran my resulting story on its cover that October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Did on the SAT | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...liked the first picture better because there's more of me to love." KATIE COURIC, who debuts as CBS Evening News anchor next week, after an in-house magazine ran a retouched photo that made her appear thinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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