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...what it really marked was the restoration of business as usual: control of the Senate by moderate consensus. A second sign came on May 29, when the New York Times reported that 24 leaders of groups ranging from the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the liberal AFL-CIO had been meeting secretly for seven months because they were worried about the sketchy, inefficient quality of American health care and wanted to figure out a proposal for universal coverage. Two weeks earlier, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Newt Gingrich, the yin and yang of politics in the 1990s, announced that...
...different time zones? Start a wiki. In Silicon Valley, at least, wiki culture has already taken root. "A lot of corporations are using wikis without top management even knowing it," says John Seely Brown, the legendary former chief scientist at Xerox PARC. "It's a bottom-up phenomenon. The CIO may not get it, but the people actually doing the work see the need for them...
...administration of Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva would prefer his fellow citizens to describe him as a vertically challenged, well-nourished supporter of liberal causes--and not as a short, fat communist. In an 87-page document drawn up by the Special Ministry for Human Rights and distributed to members of Congress, police chiefs, newspaper editors and other opinion leaders, the Lula administration lists 96 terms it wants to hear less of. Many are obvious: Don't call the physically handicapped cripples or the mentally handicapped mongoloids, and when describing Afro-Brazilians, steer clear of the Portuguese...
...deficit into a $600 million surplus and reduced the state unemployment rate from 9% to 5%. " Kean, who has approved the withdrawal of New Jersey investments from companies doing business in South Africa, won more than 60% of the black vote and was endorsed by the state's AFL-CIO. In what may become a model for moderate Republicans, the Governor preaches and practices the politics of inclusion: if the G.O.P. wants to become the majority party, he suggests, it must reach out to groups it has excluded...
...once more entered the political arena upon the election of leftist President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in 2002, when he was appointed the Minister of Culture...