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...Pinter room. Anyone who has seen almost any of Harold Pinter's plays will know exactly what that phrase means. A cold, unwelcoming, claustrophobic chamber, in which the inhabitants live in anticipation of a visitor - a threat to their dingy equilibrium. Pinter's plays have been performed all over the world, from Australia to China, and an awful lot of people have recognized those lonely rooms...
...adult community made up largely of people who were extremely successful children." Washington gets "the hall monitors...the teachers' pets, the most likely to succeed, the ones who got excellent grades, the ones who were especially good-looking in an old clothing-ad way...the ones who got the Chamber of Commerce Boy or Girl of the Year Award; or the ones who figured out how to fake it and still make it-that whole range of smiling but empty-faced youth leaders who were universally admired, though no one could have told your for exactly what...
...Norwood hadn't been the only congressman the White House was ignoring. House Republicans hoping to get a jump on the Democrats in their chamber with a patients rights bill weren't getting much attention from the administration either. Republican Rep. Ernie Fletcher, a doctor, had been talking up his patients bill with White House aides for several months, but getting little more than mild interest. Fletcher's measure was nearly identical to Frist's, except that Fletcher eventually added a provision allowing patients to sue HMOs in state courts in a limited number of cases. Fletcher attached the state...
What makes this process less Star Chamber-like is that workers can turn in self-assessments and choose up to seven colleagues and clients to write evaluations on their behalf. Moreover, anyone in the company can voluntarily submit a review of anyone else's performance. All this makes Enron's approach "a lot less subjective and a lot less random," says Steve Kean, an executive vice president, because "it doesn't depend on the views of any individual supervisor...
...After Sen. Jim Jeffords became an independent and handed control of the Senate to the Democrats, the chamber's new majority leader Tom Daschle promised to treat Republicans and the White House far better than he says they treated him. GOP leader Trent Lott, in turn, dropped a threat to block the Democrats from taking control of the Senate. It was all handshakes and grins...