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...crap out of him," Robert says. "I'd get calls from him at 9:30 at night - 11:30 in Houston - and he'd say he was just leaving the recruiting office and starting on his 40-minute drive home." His easygoing son also developed a hair-trigger temper during his time at the River Oaks and Rosenberg recruiting stations. "He wasn't really a salesman," Robert says, "and recruiters are trying to sell something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Army Recruiters Killing Themselves? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...specifically for them at Kim Il Sung Military University. Kim is said by his former sushi chef, Kenji Fujimoto, who wrote a memoir of his days in the North, to think that Jong Chul was "soft and effeminate." But he adores Jong Un, who Fujimoto says has a hot temper, like his father. There are unconfirmed reports that earlier this year, Kim officially singled out Jong Un as his successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in Store for North Korea After Kim | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...have to learn to tell them apart. Harris was the extrovert: "He smoked, he drank, he dated. He got invited to parties. He got high," Cullen writes. An Army brat, shuttled from school to school, he had picked up the trick of being charming, but he also had a temper that flared when he didn't get his way. Klebold was physically more imposing--at 6 ft. 3 in., he was 6 in. taller--but he was less sure of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning Of Murder | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...gotten angry at work maybe three or four times at most." -On keeping an even temper. (Automotive News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fritz Henderson: GM's Interim CEO | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...Once Congress has worked itself into a snit, there's no reasoning with them The best recourse, which the Obama Administration successfully employed, is to treat the House and Senate like a 2-year-old having a temper tantrum. Utter a few reassuring words: "Today's vote rightly reflects the outrage that so many feel over the lavish bonuses AIG provided its employees at the expense of taxpayers," Obama said in a statement Thursday after the House passed a bill to tax back 90% of the bonuses - a bill he later effectively came out against. It may also be necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Lessons from the AIG Bonus Blowup | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

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