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...used it to neutralize his critics on both the left and the right. By pursuing a liberal end with conservative means, Bush placed himself and his guiding philosophy of "compassionate conservatism" smack in the center of the political spectrum. Sighed a top Democratic operative in Washington: "I hate to admit it, but it was a damned good speech...
...proficiency takes on fleet competitors like Dell and Sun Microsystems, which have decidedly jazzier images. "The old joke about HP is they'd market sushi as cold, dead fish," says Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milonovich. "Right now they just don't have much of an Internet aura." Company officials admit they've been a little bit late to the I-party, losing critical market share to Sun in the server business and playing catch-up with its highly touted e-services offerings. "Clearly, we need to reinvigorate things here," said Fiorina upon taking the reins from outgoing CEO Lewis Platt...
...when there's a movie coming out or a Disney exec to be placated. "We're doubly blessed," says a Pixar employee of the company's volatile leader. "We get him when it's important, but most of the time he leaves us alone." Jobs is the first to admit that his role at the studio is less than hands on. "I don't direct the movies," he grins, making clear that that's precisely what he does in Cupertino. But he insists that this return engagement at the company he founded is just a temporary gig. A decade...
...They have formulas for their entrees," Pappas says. "I have to admit that I wouldn't add that butter or that cholesterol or fat. I would sometimes use egg whites instead of eggs, to make things low fat. Some of the bigger guys would come in knowing that they could get egg white omelets from...
Warburton said the new parody is coming along smoothly--he boasted the Lampoon "could write a 1,000-page book at this point if we needed to"--but did admit that the project had created some tensions among the 'Poonsters sequestered for the summer in the organization's Bow Street castle...