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...reality Sakamoto's only sin may be that he's smarter than his rivals. By exploiting a loophole in Japan's anachronistic, anticompetitive business rules, the 62-year-old former piano salesman has built Bookoff from a single store into a 700-outlet phenomenon in only 12 years. While nationwide book sales have declined 14% over the past six years, Bookoff's formula of selling secondhand best sellers at bargain rates has been a recession-era boon. In the past fiscal year, Bookoff increased sales 20% to $179 million, making it Japan's ninth largest bookseller. "There was a demand...
...Palmisano has the easy, boyish grin and hearty laugh of the consummate salesman he has been for much of his 30-year career at IBM. He can seem quite a contrast to his predecessor as CEO, Lou Gerstner, a notoriously gruff, prickly outsider responsible for one of the greatest turnarounds in corporate history. But nearly a year after taking over the reins amid a lingering slump in corporate spending on technology, Palmisano, 51, has shown that he has sharp teeth behind that smile...
...told ahead of time, children can also reverse parents' decisions about the distribution of assets. As Bernie Walsh, 70, a retired insurance salesman in Tustin, Calif., sat in his lawyer's office with his wife Antoinette and three of his four children, he asked the children how they would feel if he left nothing to their sister (the one not present), with whom he had had a long-standing problem. The three siblings jumped to their sister's defense. "The four kids are all close to one another," says Antoinette, 64, "and they wanted their sister to have her fair...
...bottom of the screen. But Storm Stories' emotional tone--the stories include heart-tugging music and the occasional re-enactment--is a departure for a network best known for its buttoned-down restraint. Unlike many TV weathertainers, the Weather Channel's meteorologists--the men in car-salesman suits, the women in sensible sweaters--avoid cheerleading and hype; they don't make corny puns or brag about their gastric-bypass surgery. Even the plain logo looks like something from the '50s. So there's something un--Weather Channel--ly about the flashy Storm Stories, whose ads promise "The power! The fury...
DIED. HERB RITTS, 50, sweetly easygoing celebrity photographer whose ability to make famous subjects comfortable helped him capture and define the high-octane glamour and narcissism of the 1980s; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. A onetime furniture salesman who made his name with an impromptu late-1970s photo shoot of his not-yet-known friend Richard Gere, Ritts produced memorable photos of Elizabeth Taylor revealing her brain-surgery scar, Madonna grabbing her crotch, and singer k.d. lang, in drag, being shaved by Cindy Crawford...