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...Lord's boss, Rudy Giuliani, would no doubt agree. He was in his first term when he found his son Andrew, then 7, playing Sim City. Andrew had placed police stations on every street corner. The crime rate was zero. Giuliani Sr. watched, fascinated, and began making suggestions on taxation, zoning and so forth. Finally, Andrew wheeled around. "Dad," he told the mayor of New York, "this is my city...
Office Space explores the existential despair of human beings confined to anonymous cubicles in myriad, analogous corporations across the country. The protagonist, Peter Gibbons, played by everyman Ron Livingston, is fed-up with the endless paper shuffling at corporate nightmare Initech, his unctuously sinister boss Bill Lumberg (Gary Cole) and, in short, his life in general. Gibbons' arguments against the system are blandly familiar and add nothing new to the common polemics against human automatism. But Gibbons' main function is to give the similarly disillusioned audience an easily identifiable character. And the audience at this particular viewing (mostly 20-somethings...
Ford purchasing boss Hans-Peter Kunze says his company intends to work even more closely with suppliers in the future. That will mean assigning more and more work to a smaller number of systems partners, who will in turn contract the work with more outsiders. As a result, the number of suppliers dealing directly with Ford is expected to continue dropping. "For the Escort, we worked with about 700 suppliers directly, and for the new Focus it's only 210," he says, talking about Ford's European models. "For the car we're planning as a replacement for the Fiesta...
...lowdown on her profession from two of New York's Finest. Over a late lunch at the Tick Tock Diner, Detective Ralph Aiello briefed me about his undercover work for Operation Crystal Ball, a crackdown on exploitative fortunetellers. "They're like vultures on the African plain," says Aiello. His boss, Lieutenant Robert Groth, in a sleek blue suit and crisp haircut, puts it simply: "They're professional con artists...
...helps prove Blumenthal lied under oath when he told impeachment investigators he didn't know the source of alleged White House leaks that painted Monica as a "stalker," and that he never talked about her private life. Or it may not contradict his testimony at all. Like his boss, Blumenthal parsed a lot of fine lines under oath. Blumenthal insists he told the truth and says he's "saddened" that his old friend turned on him. Why did Hitchens do it? The vociferous Clinton critic says impeachment is important--so when Congress asked him, he had to talk. Intellectual feuders...