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...Brown's prize was certain; his campaign would turn into a cross-country victory tour. Yet he arrived at the London launch venue not in pomp and splendor but by crowded Tube train. "There was a classic British silence on board. Nobody stared," says Tom Stoddart, a photographer who traveled with Brown for Time, exclusively chronicling 10 days in his life as Prime Minister-in-waiting. Brown, too, acted as if this were a trip like any other, averting his gaze from a newspaper across the aisle emblazoned with his own unsmiling face...
...staged a more daring than anticipated rescue. "When they can't make payroll, I get parachuted in." Good, with a background in restructuring small to midsize companies, founded Meridian in 1988 to do turnaround consulting, investment banking and mergers and acquisitions. Her partner (and husband of 32 years) Tom Von Lehman, a chemist by training, had managed a division at PPG Industries, the big Pittsburgh, Pa., glass and chemical company. He joined her at Meridian in the post-9/11 press of business to provide management expertise. She works with lenders to buy a company time and cash. Then...
...course, most of Ticketmaster's customers don't have the money or expertise to run their own online ticketing sites. So a new crop of companies has emerged to help them. "When you outsource your ticketing, you lose the touch point with your customers," says Tom Gillis of Capital Tickets, which runs ticketing for the Ottawa Senators hockey team and several large venues in the Ottawa area. Instead of steering buyers to Ticketmaster, the Senators keep fans on its own website (and the revenue from online ads) using software by Paciolan. Jim Royce of the Center Theatre Group...
...clean, pared-down style of simple, precise lines. His work involved stylized detail throughout, with no shading and sheer blocks of color. Hergé's impact went beyond the world of comic strips, influencing the work of artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. His storytelling was also pioneering. Tom McCarthy, author of last year's Tintin and the Secret of Literature, says the books create "a huge social tableau... managed with all the subtlety normally attributed to Jane Austen and Henry James...
...number of influential Democrats have lent their weight to similar initiatives on Iran, out of concern for Israel. On Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama, the Illinois Democratic presidential hopeful and advocate for withdrawing most U.S. forces from Iraq within a year, joined with Democratic Congressmen Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Tom Lantos of California to propose legislation that would encourage individual and institutional investors, such as state pension funds, to dump stock implicated in trade with Iran...