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Though no one talks of retirement (Grove considered it in 1987 but changed his mind), the CEO is building a management legacy. Last spring the company tapped Craig Barrett, a former Stanford materials-science professor and longtime Intel executive, as the new president and Grove's successor. And behind Barrett is a chain of bright, driven engineers all lusting for the top spot. Meet intense contenders like Intel V.P.s Paul Otellini and Sean Maloney, and you'll have little worry about a leadership vacuum. Chairman emeritus Moore sometimes comes to the office, looks around and says he sheepishly thinks...
...Players After too many years spent watching movie studios and the electronics industry haggle over the arcane details of this high-tech successor to the CD and the vcr, consumers are finally thrilling to its dazzling sound and pictures. dvd was worth the wait. Now where's the software...
Upon his death, the senior monks of Lhasa set about finding his successor in the traditional fashion. The regent went to the sacred lake of Lhamoi Lhatso, famous for its visions, and saw in its waters an image of a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. Other signs appeared. The embalmed body of the departed ruler seemed to move from pointing south to pointing toward the northeast. And auspicious cloud formations also appeared in the northeast. When a search party of monks arrived at the 20-family settlement of Takster, in the northeastern province of Amdo...
...contemplation of his place among the actors of the current generation. There is no doubt that Damon is unlike the brooding, bewailing young actors that dominate Hollywood's scene. Witty, down-to-earth and full of enthusiasm, he is a sparkling portrait of normalcy and a worthy successor to the past generations of actors that he venerates...
Though the council under Hyman and his successor, Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 has tackled progressive issues from anonymous HIV testing at University Health Services to the plight of California grape workers, Stewart and Cohen have pledged to take political debate out of the council...