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...arrangement has its costs. Above all, workers are forced to devote a lot of time to building relationships. Says process technology manager Michael Jones, 45: "At a traditional company, you have one boss to please. Here, you have everyone to please." And few companies go so far; most of the 3,500 or so American firms in which workers own a majority of the stock are organized as conventional hierarchies. But evidence is growing that the most successful firms are those that find some consistent way of empowering workers...
...evildoers unites ultraviolent comic artist Hideo Yamamoto, from whose manga the film was created, and screen violence helmer Miike Takahashi, who created last year's cult sensation Audition. Kakihara is a sado-masochistic punk gangster caught up in an underworld where dysfunction speaks louder than love. When his yakuza boss mysteriously disappears, Kakihara hunts for his abductor. In the process, he turns a mansion into a phantasmagorical torture chamber. Then he meets Ichi (Naori Omori), a schizophrenic hit man tormented by the pleasure he takes in ultraviolent killing. Director Miike obviously wants to signpost Japanese society's ills and does...
...instance, she cites the case of a door in the UHS physical therapy department. When a patient complained about the difficulty of opening the door with a normal handle, Cannon took the issue to her boss, UHS Director David R. Rosenthal ’59, who got a push button installed...
...computers for tidbits on Bill and Hilary Clinton, whose liberal politics raised his arch-conservative hackles. According to the Webster commission report, Hanssen ran more than 20 searches on the Clintons, even snooping on the Clinton's daughter, Chelsea. Hanssen even ran a search on his boss, FBI director Louis Freeh. "Had the FBI been aware of these searches, it seems likely that auditors would have found this activity peculiar and it would have received close scrutiny," the commission report says. But apparently nobody noticed...
...Certainly the White House doesn't sound too worried. Grilled on the subject of rising pump prices Wednesday, press secretary Ari Fleischer dismissed the idea and drily referred reporters to his boss' energy legislation (including ANWR drilling) as a way to reduce the American dependence on foreign oil - perhaps the Senate should consider passing...