Word: woulds
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...most influential people of the 20th century will culminate with our Dec. 31 issue, when we name the Person of the Century. Throughout the year, to help the magazine's editors make the choice, we have asked a select group of people to tell us whom they would pick. Here are the final intriguing nominations...
...Chait is right, "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House" would be precisely the sort of slogan Bush's campaign should avoid. When reporters ask him questions designed to discover whether he really has read James Chace's biography of Dean Acheson, he shouldn't answer with some foreign-policy boilerplate from his stump speech. He should say, "Couldn't finish it. Too many long words...
Even in a company that venerates carbonated sugar water, Douglas Ivester stood out for his missionary zeal to spread Coca-Cola around the world. An accountant by training, with an eight-day-a-week work ethic, Ivester predicted a decade ago that he would be chairman and CEO of Coke by Nov. 1, 1998. He beat that brash forecast by a year when Roberto Goizueta, his charismatic mentor and predecessor, died suddenly of lung cancer in October...
...last week the business world was shocked when Ivester announced he would retire next April to make way for "fresh leadership," putting an end to a tenure that was as extraordinarily rocky as it was brief. The Georgia native insistently echoed company statements that stepping down at age 52 was his idea. But veteran Coke watchers couldn't help speculating that there must have been a shove from disenchanted members of the company's board of directors. "This was a guy you would have had to carry out in a box," says Tom Pirko, president of Bevmark, a consultant...
Practicing Appalachian craft traditions that are centuries old, some students at Berea College in Berea, Ky., have learned to weave, sculpt and carve an assortment of household items that would make even Martha Stewart jealous. The Berea College Student Crafts catalog features hundreds of handmade products. Proceeds from every couch throw ($90), broom ($9 to $48) and candelabrum ($75) go toward the education of the college's 1,500 students, all of whom work in lieu of tuition. "All you have to do is rub your hands across one of our couch throws, and you'll know there's quality...