But according to Forbes magazine, he's the most disastrous CEO in corporate America, while to Vanity Fair he's the man who has presided over a lost decade.
Their range of reactions from shame, horror, remorse, and reproach to vanity, ignorance, and defensiveness is not surprising, but the resulting portrait of their tarnished ancestor is fascinating and troubling.
Once again, however, logic must defer, in this case, to the vanity and power-hunger of national politicians and, it must be said, to the enduring loyalties of Europeans to their nation-states, despite a striking increase in their affirmations of a local or tribal identity.
The main risk for luxury brands, says Ian Sewell, commercial director of Redwood, is that their magazines will prove to be vanity publications that look good but do not drive product sales.
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He appealed to moral vanity by saying that fighting a war against fanatic barbarians "with one hand tied behind your back" is being on "the better side of history, " even though innocent lives are put at risk.
The bewildering lack of uniformity is a product of what industry pundits have come to call "vanity sizing"--a thinly veiled attempt by retailers to make weight-conscious customers feel better about their figures.
The only appeal is to politicians seeking to create monuments to themselves and to gain prestige, as if the trade numbers were just another bit of vanity to set on a shelf next to Olympic stadiums and high speed rail lines.
On Friday night, many of us rushed home to grab our vanity urls on Facebook.
Or are the filmmakers suggesting that Miguel is too hampered by guilt or vanity to succeed?
Think of all the other tools we use to indulge our vanity and pursue our desire for self-expression and self-promotion.
But, then, neither would his mare have the vanity to come around and examine the canvas even as he worked on it.
Pairing a standing mirror and a table to create a vanity is hardly a new idea in fact, it's how the earliest designs were constructed.
New vineyards were planted to cash in, a trend that accelerated as dotcom millionaires from nearby Silicon Valley began to invest in vanity vineyards.
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But his finest work is drawn from life, and designed to satisfy the vanity and lust of magnificent dukes, corrupt popes and powerful emperors.
For Samantha, the feeding tube has nothing to do with vanity.
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Aside from its inexcusable length, this is a solid piece of filmmaking, not just the work of an actor who's generated enough power to get a vanity project off the ground.
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Even though the campaign states that "men drink more on average than women" and "suffer more ill effects as a result, " it's targeted to women in an effort to play on their vanity, said a Scottish government spokeswoman who asked not to be named.
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It is instead one about what it means to be a liberal in today's media environment....Gore refused to sell his channel to conservative Glenn Beck saying that he didn't wish to see his vanity project fall into the hands of those who disagreed with his politics.
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And I think Iowa and New Hampshire, all those states that used - are used to going first, sort of a vanity fear, they're going to lose all of that status because going first just doesn't have the same power anymore.
She would lack the patience, and the vanity, to stand immobile for him, one hoof proudly advanced.
While Brown was once able to work magic with Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, her editorial talents lay in decades past.
Yet even in doing so, it will not be enough unless the USC community commits itself to resisting the urge to feed its own vanity.
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It appeals to our vulnerability and vanity.
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On the 2007 tape, the al Qaeda leader had even dyed his white-flecked beard black, suggesting that as the Saudi militant entered his fifth decade, he was not immune to a measure of vanity about his personal appearance.
More than a decade ago, VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, commissioned a vanity project to rival the pyramids: to resurrect the great French luxury and racing marque Bugatti, right down to Ettore Bugatti's l'orangerie in Molsheim, in Alsace, France, and build there the greatest sports car of all time, with no compromise.
That the ability to give to charities speaks to disposable income to varying degrees means that those without means subsidize the underlying vanity that often causes those with means to give to begin with.
In its annual ranking of the powerful and influential, Vanity Fair seems to imply the latter.
"This is about being goal-oriented, as opposed to a general fitness or vanity play, " she says.
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