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...case every day for three weeks. Finally, in a last-ditch attempt before her home was reauctioned, she visited the office of the bank's ceo, sat herself down in his reception area and waited. After about six hours, the puzzled ceo invited her into his office. He listened to her story, reviewed her file, sensed her resolve and agreed to loan her the cost of the house. "You just have to persevere and be brave," Leo, who is still paying off her mortgage, says today. "If people tell you that you can't see the boss, don't listen...
...1980s he was dispatched on state business to the Philippines, where AIG subsidiary Philippine American Life Insurance is the largest insurer. His mission: make clear to President Ferdinand Marcos that foreign investors were uneasy with the unstable government; he should step down or conduct fair elections. (Marcos didn't listen and ultimately fled in disgrace.) In the early 1990s Greenberg met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin and won approval for an AIG investment there...
...Xbox 360 will bring about a new wave of cinematic-quality games the likes of which we can barely imagine right now. But I do not want to invite Bill Gates into my living room. The thought of coping with software problems and rebooting before I can watch TV, listen to music or look at photos of my kids' birthday parties is scary. John Martin Stamford, Connecticut...
...film genre has a less sexy name. Documentary: a five-syllable word that smells of parchment and sounds like homework. Who goes to the movies for a civics lesson? If people want to be harangued about how rotten the world is, they can listen to talk radio...
...comprised of Skocpol, former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, and Pforzheimer University Professor Sid Verba ’53—was rejected by the majority of the Faculty for being “undemocratic and prearranged,” Skocpol says professors did not listen to a full explanation...