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...amendment to ban gay marriage, Social Security private accounts, restricted federal funding of stem-cell research. The most he would do is hint that radioactive Attorney General John Ashcroft wouldn't make it to a second Bush presidency. But even at the height of the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal, Bush would not consider calls to dump Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "If you're wasting your time coming up with a way to recommend this, don't," he told a bunch of top aides in an Oval Office meeting. "And you make sure other people know this. This is absolutely...
...STEPPING DOWN. DAVID BLUNKETT, 57, British Home Secretary, following a scandal over his alleged involvement in expediting a residence visa for his ex-lover's nanny; in London. Although Blunkett denied any wrongdoing, the scandal capped a string of career-damaging revelations, including nasty remarks about his colleagues made in a recent biography, the disclosure of his three-year affair with American publisher Kimberly Quinn, and his claims to have fathered her two-year-old son. Born blind, Blunkett rose from working-class roots to become one of Prime Minister Tony Blair's closest allies; his security initiatives were...
...face, the baseball steroid scandal is simple. Athletes who break the rules to win are cheaters. But ask why we have the rules in the first place, and you have to confront a basic irony. We decry performance-enhanced sports. Yet we live performance-enhanced lives...
...clearly come back. Its stock has risen 25% since January, and in this fiscal year Tyco has generated $4.8 billion in cash and $2.9 billion in profits while slashing its debt by $4.4 billion. Another sign of confidence: in June, Breen launched Tyco's first ad campaign since the scandal. With so much cash on hand, Breen is in the enviable position of figuring out how to spend it. Next year he plans to raise Tyco's dividend and make at least one acquisition in health care or electronics. Wary of anything that looks like hubris, Breen shrugs...
...would have been natural for Jeffrey Immelt to reflexively embrace the strategies of his predecessor, storied über-CEO Jack Welch, who built GE into one of the world's most profitable companies. But Immelt, 48, quickly went his own way, imposing new long-term strategies. When scandal erupted over Welch's perk-laden send-off, Immelt responded by taking a lead role in corporate reform. For starters, he put more independent directors on the board and got rid of stock options as part of his pay. "We know we are studied," he says. "We feel we have a responsibility...