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...legitimately worried about making a good first impression on my boss, but I should have known that, in the long run, first impressions are inconsequential and often incorrect. A person who appears to hold major best-friend potential on the first day of freshman week can wind up a distant acquaintance three years later. And the cover of my neuroscience textbook, with assorted 3-D brain renderings in Technicolor, appeared far more intriguing than its contents turned...
...office outside Brogan’s room, Bowden, the rookie, pulls up the sleeves of her CFD-issued sweatshirt, complete with denim patches and labels. She’s already soaked up the rhythm and ritual of the place, though she joined the CFD nearly two decades after her boss...
...well-fed though. It regularly treats its employees to company dinners and catered picnics. The Bank has no qualms about taking us to the ritziest restaurants in Washington, including those that have streams of Bentleys lined up at the Valet (and I’ve been told by my boss that our group only uses 2/3 of its annual discretionary budget!). Compared with the unpaid political interns also residing in the dorms at George Washington University, I live like a king...
Beyond Howard's performance is the film's beguiling fantasy of community. DJay connects with his old friend Key (Anthony Anderson), who sets up a home recording studio. One of DJay's whores sings the chorus on her boss's song; another turns tricks to raise money for sound equipment. The track is engineered by a geeky white guy (DJ Qualls). When he's dismissed as a doofus white, Key replies, "No, he's just light-skinned"--which must be how Brewer, who has black and white friends from all strata of Memphis society, sees himself...
...Rosenthal's achievements, however, his autocratic management style caused increasing internal strife. Staffers describe him as an emotional, capricious and sometimes vindictive boss. When Science Reporter Richard Severo tried to sell a book based on his Times reporting to an outside publisher, he suddenly found himself handling minor stories; that, he claimed, was Rosenthal's retaliation for Severo's not selling his work to Times Books. Others charge that as Rosenthal has grown more conservative politically, he has become skittish about criticizing Establishment figures in print. When Sydney Schanberg, a 1976 Pulitzer prizewinner for his Cambodia coverage, began frequently attacking...