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...Bill Clinton wants everyone in the room to like him, and Al Gore wants everyone to think he's right, George Bush wants everyone to know who's boss. He mocks advisers who try to impress him with arcana, insisting that they "speak English," and he frequently cuts people off in midsentence, keeping control of the conversation. He earns the loyalty of his staff by giving them broad authority, but he doesn't hesitate to remind even his closest advisers that he's the big dog, something he usually does with a sarcastic remark. While Gore may view...
...heavy-handed Portuguese colonialists. At 16 he ran away from his studies at a Catholic seminary and wound up in Dili, teaching Portuguese at a Chinese school and working as a government surveyor. He was fired when, in his first act of defiance, he threatened to punch his boss in an argument over racial discrimination by East Timor's Portuguese overlords...
...These sleep-deprived souls are software engineers--trained to write code, not dirty their hands with metalwork. Which explains why Angeloff has accidentally soldered the wrong pieces of circuitry together in one of the boxes. The engineers have been up so long on this frazzled assembly line because their boss--Bill Gates, a man whose tolerance for failure is minuscule--needs to demonstrate his company's tentative entry into the games-console market. "It's like we're cooking a big buffet," an engineer explains, "and the guests are arriving in two hours...
...wardrobe is about as subtle as Steven Soderberg's grandstanding movie gets. As the real-life paralegal who uncovered a public-health scandal and helped win the largest civil judgment ever, Roberts gets to tell off lawyers, clerks, her decent boss (Albert Finney) and her faultless boyfriend (Aaron Eckhart) from the righteous perch of her 3-in. heels. And the bras that peek above her sweaters--they're more colorful than a Disney cartoon production number. They also provide the movie's only true uplift...
...friend Jennifer (not her real name) is a very generous person, but I wasn't prepared for the bombshell she dropped on me the other day. "I think I'm going to donate a kidney to my former boss," she told me. "What do you think...