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Point one--with a six-year capital campaign, Rudenstine has been limited in the amount of time he can spend with student. But his successor doesn't have to be. Every candidate wants a University president who is in touch with student concerns...
...Daimler merger, became increasingly detached from the company's operations--but not so much that he couldn't fire Chrysler president Tom Stallkamp last year. Schrempp may not have agreed with that move, but he didn't stop it either. Schrempp let Eaton choose Holden as Stallkamp's successor. "This was an American management team with a real track record, who we thought knew what they were doing," says a Schrempp lieutenant in Stuttgart...
...macro scale, AeroVironment designed and built the Pathfinder, a six-engine, battery-powered, unmanned plane with a 121-ft. wingspan that in 1998 flew to an altitude of 80,400 ft., higher than any propeller plane has ever flown. The Centurion, a successor model with an enormous wingspan of 206 ft., is using solar cells, and, says MacCready, "we're expecting to fly it to 100,000 ft. in late spring." The ultimate descendant of these craft, the Helios, will have a fuel-cell energy-storage system to provide power for flying at night. That will enable the plane...
...What Women Want" has its expected success, Gibson will have proved himself a worthy romantic-comedy successor to Cary Grant. Or he could evolve into a Sean Connery, who has in a masterly way affixed himself in the public consciousness as both the beautiful young Bond and the Oscar-winning old lion of "The Untouchables." But, more than likely, Gibson will follow the path of another aging sex symbol, Robert Redford, who has extended his career by working behind the camera...
...when Murphy announced last spring that he too would leave the following year, it was unclear whether Rudenstine or Rudenstine's successor would undertake the search for a new leader of the nation's top-ranked school of education...