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Dec 31, 2002

Last of the superheroes

It's time CEOs were moved from their pedestal back to the head of the corporation

The 1990s made chief executive officers into gods. They were saviors heaped with evangelical praise for increasing shareholder value and equally reviled when they failed. But gods don't need investor relations officers to explain to the masses when their stocks fall. Today's CEOs do. Forget for a moment the villains who instigated the 'Clean up our corporations' campaign: Kozlowski, Ebbers and Lay. Remember those latter-day superheroes, mythical gods and matinee idols: Lee Iacocca, Warren Buffett,

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