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...part, Frist says, "my leadership style is pretty simple: define a mission, be able to write it on a single card in a single sentence." The kindly exterior has always masked his aggressive nature. Heart-transplant surgeons are like that. "They are people who are disciplined, are focused, are no-nonsense," Frist says. "The timid people in medicine don't go into the field of cutting hearts out and putting them in." Tom Daschle would surely agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Cool Operator | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...Peru, where she went in hope of securing an inheritance from her late Peruvian father. The money was denied her, but Tristan was dauntless, the sort of woman who would later dress as a man to investigate conditions in London slums and sponsor a contest for composers to write a new anthem for the working class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kindred Spirits | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

First, however, is a movie of The Producers musical, which Meehan and Brooks say they plan to write next year and hope to begin filming in February 2005 for release by Christmas 2005. And Meehan is committed to Rocky, for which he has already turned in a detailed outline that Stallone calls "superb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hit Man's Life | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...Then, after reading Ima Ningen Toshite by Takeji Hayashi, he was inspired to write a letter to its publisher, Komichi Shobo Co., saying the book awakened him to reading. That connection led to a job at the small company. At 28, Takei went independent, publishing in 1989 the best-selling compilation Listen to My Story: The Blue Hearts, My Love, the authors of which included Banana Yoshimoto. Takei had yet to even rent office space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heat Detector | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...effect making it possible for some to walk away from their obligations. The Korea Asset Management Corporation (KAMCO), a public agency set up after the Asian financial crisis to dispose of bad corporate debt, recently assumed $5.48 billion in delinquent accounts from shaky card companies. KAMCO plans to write off up to 30% of the principal, extend the payment periods to a maximum of eight years and redeem the credit records of debtors. Some card companies have started their own debt-forgiveness programs; these have the unintended consequence of creating an incentive for borrowers to stall for a bailout rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House of Cards | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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