Word: chairman
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...whole team talks every morning by conference call at 8:30 (that's 7:30 Nashville time), and the candidate stays in touch throughout the day, largely through Eskew. Late at night, Eskew, Brazile and campaign chairman Tony Coelho often get a final call, in which Gore downloads to them the notes he has made to himself throughout the day on his PalmPilot. (Some of his circle have begun to secretly wish the electronic gizmo would just break...
...Maybe that's why he seems to be having the most fun onstage; no one in the audience has a clue about what he's going to do next. But it's a lot to juggle: his rhetoric as a reformer against his record as a Commerce Committee chairman; his reputation as a straight talker against his need to mollify flag wavers in South Carolina; his luck that New Hampshire loves mavericks against his certain knowledge that his party hates them...
Levin traces at least part of his get-there-now heritage to an old boss, David Lilienthal, one of the prototypical "great men" of the 20th century. A tall, owlish Midwesterner, Lilienthal rose to become an adviser to Presidents from Roosevelt through Carter, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and then head of the Atomic Energy Commission after World War II. In 1955 he started a small firm called Development and Resources Corp. to bring power, water and communications to the developing world. In 1967, bored after just four years as a lawyer, 28-year-old Levin joined...
Justice may be more mollified by another announcement made last week: Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates relinquished the title of CEO. Steve Ballmer, 43, president since 1998, was named to replace him. "Gates' sidestepping helps a little bit," says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic, "to the extent you change the face you have to deal with. Nobody speaks of Ballmer as the villain...
Alan Greenspan should have quit. Instead of accepting renomination as chairman of the Federal Reserve two weeks ago, he should have said, "No, thank you" and bowed out on top. Michael Jordan did it. So did Jerry Seinfeld. Babe Ruth didn't--and finished feebly in Boston. I'm not saying Greenspan will go down in flames. In 12 years, he's steered us through a stock-market crash, banking crisis and emerging-market disasters and hasn't gone soft. But as the wild gyrations in stock prices so far this year suggest, the Fed's job is getting tougher...