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...chaotic days following the end of World War II, Hiromu Nonaka went to work for the sales department of the Osaka railway. The man who may become Japan's next Prime Minister impressed his bosses so much that they made him a supervisor. Then one night Nonaka overheard a worker say something so upsetting that he quit his job. Bitter and determined, he returned to his hometown of Sonobe, where he ran for a seat on the town council, beginning a remarkable political career that has taken him to the inner circle of Japan's political Elite. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Head of the Pack | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...called Q-Tips brand manager Michael Peterson and posed some tough questions about the company's practices. He told me he'd have to check with a supervisor. I felt like Mike Wallace--an idiot version of Mike Wallace with much worse hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Evil in the Ear Canal | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...called Q-Tips brand manager Michael Peterson and posed some tough questions about the company's practices. He told me he'd have to check with a supervisor. I felt like Mike Wallace--an idiot version of Mike Wallace with much worse hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Evil in the Ear Canal | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...Tajzadeh became a hero of the reform movement when as supervisor of the parliamentary elections he defended the reformist victory, which the country's hardline Guardian Council threatened to annul. This week's sentence bars Tajzadeh from monitoring elections - most significantly the June presidential race - for the next six years. The decision is seen as a stepped-up campaign to discourage moderate President Mohammed Khatami from running for reelection, rather than as a move to facilitate rigging the June vote itself. Flustered by the hardline backlash, the cautious Khatami may decline to run if the election turns into a confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jailing of a Reformer Leaves Iran's Students Seething | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...shows the sub's executive officer and captain the same sonar picture that the guys in the sonar shack are looking at. Having that screen broken was obviously not helpful. Then, down in the sonar shack, there should have been three or four sonar technicians as well as a supervisor keeping an eye on things. But that day on the Greeneville, there were only two technicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: USS Greeneville Inquiry Reaches Further Down Chain of Command | 3/8/2001 | See Source »

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