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...Port Authority, which built and operates the New York-area port facilities, airports, tunnels and bridges, is famous for its engineering achievements. Its judgment in architecture is another matter. It was former P.A. chief Austin Tobin who chose Minoru Yamasaki to design the Twin Towers. Just a few years later, the city of St. Louis, Mo., blew up Yamasaki's much despised Pruitt-Igoe housing project. A large crowd there turned out to cheer...
...more closely districts look, the less transparent the diagnoses. Beginning last year, Texas' Austin Independent School District began requiring principals to track discipline data by race to discern if any specific teachers were using a heavier hand with black students. The answer was yes, but the reasons were far from straightforward. Cornel Jones, principal of Austin's Oak Springs Elementary School, does not blame racism but chalks the problem up to "cultural misunderstandings" between his white teachers and the 97%-minority student body. One insidious source of confusion: When a teacher scolds a black or Latino student for a simple...
...racial misunderstandings, but there is also racial paranoia," says Beverly Cross, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Education. "We see this a lot with black boys who are cute until about the fourth grade, and then teachers start to fear them." Linelle Clark, Austin's dropout-prevention coordinator, sees some evidence of this in her district. She recalls that "one principal noticed a teacher with a pattern of sending the same black kid to the office, and when he called her on it, she said, 'I'm scared of that child...
...Ogami's hilarious bumblings over the following months bring to mind Dr. Evil in an Austin Powers sequel?hilarious, that is, if not for the fact that they torpedoed a bank serving 18,000 poor Filipinos. G.O. Group had raised the cash to buy Unitrust by selling unregistered bonds in Japan. He loaned the proceeds to dummy local owners to make the purchase, says Inoue, in order to sidestep Philippine laws prohibiting majority foreign ownership of banks. Ogami announced his September 2001 takeover by posting his face on billboards around Manila and running a two-page newspaper ad offering jobs...
...have to abandon all secrecy in the information age, says Tom Halbouty, chief information officer of Pioneer Natural Resources, based in Irving, Texas. The company often collaborates with its competitors. To protect secrets about oil-field discoveries and drilling-platform designs, Pioneer purchased software from Infraworks of Austin, Texas, that limits the reproduction of sensitive digital documents. The company encrypts its Internet communication with partners and insists that contractors working on site use Pioneer's e-mail system so the company can track what information they send to whom. Pioneer is also careful to obtain nondisclosure agreements early in each...