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...During his medical examination, Zhu excused himself to visit the washroom. There, according to state media reports, he leaped through a window that was open to the subfreezing weather outside, eluding a guard who grabbed at his legs but succeed only in pulling his trousers to his knees. Zhu, who was 57, fell nine meters and died instantly...
Gutmann, who is currently provost of Princeton University, will succeed the widely-respected Judith Rodin, who announced last summer that she would step down in July 2004 after a decade at the helm...
...Clinton is the ghost in all their political machines, massaging Dick Gephardt's message, editing John Edwards' speeches, matchmaking between Wesley Clark and the party rainmakers. If too much time passes between calls, friends say, Clinton gets a little peeved, like a mother wanting her kids to succeed when they head off to college, but not without her help. "He knows what they are going through," says a source who chats with Clinton often. "He has helped them think through their own strengths and weaknesses." But none of the Democrats can do that without first coming to grips with Clinton...
...Bank One, Wall Streeters have speculated that he had something to prove. By turning the beleaguered lender into a financial-services powerhouse, the thinking went, Dimon would demonstrate just how essential he had been in helping build Citigroup. Perhaps he would even eventually merge Bank One with Citigroup and succeed Weill in a final act of redemption. But as recently as last summer, Dimon was dismissing this theory as nonsense. "Whoever says that I have something to prove doesn't know me that well," the fast-talking New Yorker told TIME. Last week, even after announcing Bank...
Certainly there's no guarantee that the merger will succeed. The vast majority of big-bank combinations have failed to deliver on their promise, largely as a result of a clash of cultures and loss of focus, and the new J.P. Morgan Chase will still lack the global reach and insurance breadth of Citigroup (the former might also want to acquire a retail brokerage). But as much as anything else, investors are banking on Dimon's stubborn pride to make sure this one will be different. Weill and Dimon may have patched things up at a personal level--indeed, Weill...