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Joanne Bradford is what Microsoft looks like when it gets serious. Bill Gates says he's committed to taking some of Google's $6.1 billion in online ad revenue, and he has named Bradford, 42, head of Microsoft's new global sales unit to do it. "I'm not afraid of anything, much less Google," says Bradford, formerly in charge of North American sales. She has already bulked up her sales staff by 100 and will soon roll out a new system to target ads. Bradford is also personally prepared for the hard road ahead: she just bought antiwrinkle cream...
...years ago, Bob Markway retired. Or so he thought. After joining Shell's exploration and production unit in 1973, Markway had climbed the ranks to manage its deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico. He had reached an age and accumulated enough years of service to sail off into the sunset with a good pension. Both kids' college tuitions and one of their weddings were out of the way; his 46-ft. sailboat, the Sazerac, beckoned. But then Hurricane Katrina walloped his house two blocks from Lake Pontchartrain, and his plans for a clean break from his career shifted. "Suddenly...
...idea of how much the lines dividing male and female roles have blurred--or vanished--TIME joined a unit of U.S. military police from the 10th Mountain's 1st Brigade on patrol along the reedy canals and palm groves outside Baghdad. This is a favorite route for insurgents streaming in from Fallujah. As the troops load into their humvees, Sergeant Lenore Swenson, 25, from Colorado Springs, Colo., who dreams of leaving the Army someday and buying a horse ranch, tucks her flaxen hair under her helmet. Her friendly grin vanishes beneath a black fire-retardant mask with goggles. She trained...
...days of yore when 45 r.p.m. records and LPs thrived simultaneously. "People go in and buy the single and a couple of other tracks, then they come back and buy the whole album. We're not frightened of any of that. I don't believe that the album unit will just disappear. Our job is to make albums people want." In the brave new digital world, one truth of the industry's economics remains unchanged. Typically only 5 to 15% of a label's artists - the megastars - bring in the cash to pay for the rest. That's why artist...
...part, Cheney visited Whittington in the intensive care unit of the hospital on Sunday night and said through an aide afterward, "I was pleased to see that Harry's doing well. He's in good spirits." The Vice President flew down to Texas on Friday after working at the White House, his office said. He remained there Sunday but did not hunt, his office said, before flying back to Washington on Sunday night. He joined Bush on Monday afternoon during an Oval Office meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, but left before reporters were allowed in for questions...