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...standing, "but it's not because he's meanspirited; it's because he's absolutely single minded, almost manic, in his pursuit of quality and excellence." Indeed, Jobs' most potent weapon is still his messianic zeal to fulfill his original vision of Apple as the bridge between the average citizen and the mysterious world of the computer. "His DNA was built into this company," says Heidi Roizen, a partner at the Softbank venture-capital firm who has known Jobs since the beginning. "And when he came back, everything fell into place--a return to excellence in design, to listening...
Ever wonder why good legislation dies and bad bills survive? One way to find out is to sign up for a week with the Close Up Foundation's $1,160 Congressional Senior Citizen Intern Program in Washington. Participants go to hearings and briefings, take political seminars on topics ranging from health care to international relations, meet with VIPs and lend a hand in the office of one of their Senators or Representatives. Accommodations and most meals are provided by a nearby Marriott. During her stint as an intern in California Democratic Representative Bob Filner's office, Lupita Jimenez, a children...
...candidates have high regard for the senior citizen vote," says Leroy L. Cragwell, vice president of Cambridge's Council on Aging, citing the big senior picnics put on each year by candidates...
...luxury it is not to get overexposed," says LIEV SCHREIBER. Rather than practicing false humility, the actor is acknowledging how intense media attention can hobble a career. As an example, he cites Orson Welles, whom he portrays in HBO's upcoming RKO 281, the story of the making of Citizen Kane. "When this movie was released," he says, "no one saw it because William Randolph Hearst hated it. So the press killed it." Schreiber has been drawing increased scrutiny as he rehearses Hamlet on Broadway and reprises his Scream role in December. And wary as he is of hype...
Michael Fortier may have been a good citizen after the Oklahoma bombing, but he was still a villain beforethe crime ?- and what a crime it was. That was apparently what weighed on U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Van Bebber?s mind as he refused to abate ?- despite an appellate court?s clear wishes that he do so ?- the 12-year sentence he had given Fortier a year ago. Ordered by the appeals court to use new, lowered sentencing guidelines (involuntary manslaughter instead of first-degree murder), Bebber stuck by his guns. TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen...