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...only candidate bearing scars from the last race. Organized labor, a powerful force in the party, has not forgiven his attacks on "special interests" backing his ultimately successful rival for the presidential nomination, Walter Mondale. In addition, he struck many voters as a paradoxical combination of cold, aloof technocrat and movie star manqué who let his unexpected victories in early primaries go to his head...
...Madrid appears to have contributed to the crisis, if only by inaction. Although the quiet, Harvard-educated technocrat made a flurry of public appearances just after the earthquake, his visits to disaster areas have tapered off, adding to the image of government aloofness. The absence of strong crisis management has led to a feeling that De la Madrid's government is adrift. Says a Western diplomat in Mexico City: "The government seems to be gripped by inertia...
...Yale-educated Williams was once known as the anti-Barry, the technocrat the city needed. Now Williams has became a symbol of a leadership many feel is out of touch with the concerns of residents. Enter the ?Mayor for Life,? who shows up on the streets and asks residents how their mothers are doing. ?We miss you, we?re so glad you're back,? 51-year-old Sunetta Vincent yells from her car a Safeway parking lot to Barry, who made a short trip there a few days before he was to start his city council job. People come...
...that brings us back to Dishman at Intel, who doesn't necessarily favor a fully automated health-care system devoid of the doctor-patient bond. He's not a technocrat by training or by nature. He's a sociologist who studies people--their needs and desires. "People didn't really embrace hearing aids until they became small enough not to be embarrassing," he says. That's even more the case with something as sensitive as incontinence--a problem, like so many, that technology can help solve, but only once we're willing to accept the cure...
APPOINTED. JOHN THAIN, 48, president of investment bank Goldman Sachs; as chief executive of the beleaguered New York Stock Exchange; in New York City. Thain, a well-regarded technocrat, will take over the CEO post from interim chairman and chief executive John Reed, who will remain chairman under a new structure that splits the chairman and CEO jobs. Both were held by Dick Grasso, who resigned in September in the wake of protests over his hefty pay package...