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...with a laugh. But he gets serious when the topic turns to his day job and what lies just around the corner for his employees: a sweeping restructuring that will bring tens of thousands of layoffs. "Honestly, I don't worry about myself," he says. "I mean, I can screw up my life, and it doesn't really matter"--a fair observation for a man who is an heir to a billion-dollar fortune. "But what I worry about is the impact all of this has on others. We're going to do what we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save The American Auto Industry? | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

Because it is easy to lose track of how many times he needs to ring the bell, Campbell will often use a piece of metal or an old screw and mark the inside of the bell with small scratch lines in a tally...

Author: By Shifra B. Mincer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: History, Habits Clash in Bells | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

...there you have it: Fifteen Minutes. While it’s not quite good enough for regular postal mail, it might just make you want to screw your doorbox back on. At the very least, FM’s relatively handsome graphics and generous dimensions make for great wrapping paper. Now all you have to do is remove a CD from the cover of a music magazine and you can check “Mom” off the Christmas list...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: DOODROPPED: FM: A Magazine That Tells Lies | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...course, there’s Wyclef Jean, who didn’t play to the tune of about $30,000.The purpose of this column, however, is not to simply list these wasteful expenditures as so many have done before. Hallow calls for greater accountability and student input after each screw-up have done nothing, save encourage the Council to futilely try to redeem itself only to fail once again. It’s time to face the music: the UC is utterly incapable of organizing successful campus-wide social events, and it has an insatiable appetite for repeating (and expanding...

Author: By John Hastrup, | Title: Cut the Termbill—by Yourself | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

...wife worked in the CIA's Counterproliferation Division. To hard-liners like Libby, who believed that the CIA opposed the war in Iraq and had been quietly undercutting the President for months, it appeared that the CIA was turning on Cheney too. "Scooter thought the CIA was trying to screw us," says a former colleague of Libby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libby: Fall of a Vulcan | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

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