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Managers must be careful not to swing too far the other way though, warns Olivier Zitoun, CEO of Eveo.com an online digital-video broadcaster. A democratic approach can get messy, he says, and stall the decision-making process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gray is Good | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...hour three, nursing a Merlot in the far-left stall, I staggered out to see a guy with slicked-back hair tell another guy he hoped he was going to the DreamWorks party because he was "the only fun guy here." But then some bearded guy attached to Topsy-Turvy leaned in and said, "Hey, I take offense at that." They ignored him. Topsy-Turvy is the math club of the Oscars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Buddy, Watch the Shoes! | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...someone so full of promise, set aloft by luminaries like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Bob Kerrey and Michael Jordan, stall in midair? There were tactical mistakes, like spending too much time in Iowa, but there was a bigger problem. If you are going to run on personality, you'd better have one that wears well. Bradley talked about love and hope with the warmth of a telemarketer. He respected "the people," but not one by one. If the premise of a question was wrong, he would correct it even if the question was posed by a kid. His high school coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Bradley: The Loneliest Face in the Crowd | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...husband is suddenly dead, her seven children are in peril, she's in debt to a loan shark, and her best friend has breast cancer. But Agnes Browne, played by the director, remains essentially, somewhat improbably, undaunted. She cheerfully runs her fruit and vegetable stall in an outdoor Dublin market, allows herself to be flirted with by the local baker, yearns for tickets to a Tom Jones concert (the year is 1967). Not that we want for another lesson in the need to be chipper in adversity, but there are a reserve and a realism in Huston's work that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Agnes Browne | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...work hung in the choir stall of the All Saints Episcopal Church in West Newbury until about 20 years ago. It then found its way into a coat closet. Though church elders knew of the painting, they did not know of its value. So it collected dust...

Author: By Gernot Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Art Historian Disputes Authenticity of Renaissance Painting | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

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