, but senior managers got them, SO they must be pretty good. 30 To demonstrate AT&T's corporate responsibility, which had obvi- ously taken a real beating, we called a news conference to announce that AT&T would donate $150 million to education over the next five years, not only from the company foundation, but in services from its businesses. AT&T Wireless, for example, would equip schools with cell phones that could be used in an emergency or to improve commu- nications on field trips. AT&T's consumer long-distance business would provide schools with free Internet service. And the unit provid- ing long-distance services to businesses would host a Web site that teachers could access to develop online lesson plans. The AT&T Foun- dation would fund the development of new course curricula and bring the best teachers from every state to AT&T Labs for summer work- shops. By the time AT&T met its commitment, in 200I, it had been recognized and honored by most of the country's most significant edu- cational organizations. This all positioned Bob Allen to play a major role in an education summit in May 1996 that would bring together most of the country's governors and CEOs from forty-four major companies. Normally, Allen had little patience with politicians, whom he generally consid- ered "grandstanders." He also didn't consider it particularly produc- tive to spend a day listening to speeches that he could just as easily read in a fraction of the time. But he was genuinely interested in the subject (one of his daughters was studying to be a teacher, and his own mother had taught school), SO he took the company helicopter to the education summit, which was being held at IBM's Executive Conference Center in Palisades, New York. As he came out of a workshop on educational standards, he saw a familiar face coming quickly around the corner. Leslie Stahl, who was Understand the Power of Symbols a correspondent for the 60 Minutes television news magazine, was a casual acquaintance who had sat next to him at several dinners wh