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Which is almost possible. I asked Sharam Sasson, 42, president and CEO of @Large Software, if he knew who Trent Lott is. Sasson, a highly educated, thoughtful and articulate research engineer, born in Iran but now an American citizen, said, "I don't know him." I also asked Joel Bellenson, the 32-year-old CEO of Pangea Systems, a 1991 biotech start-up. A few years and a few moves further along than @Large (though still, shall we say, preprofitable), Pangea is recently installed in a glamorous office overlooking a lake in downtown Oakland. Bellenson, who says he subscribes...
...workers are invisible, but they pose the most serious threat to China's political stability. The city labors under omnipresent police, armed cops patrolling the streets of the industrial zone, gun-toting guards standing sentry in factory doorways, plainclothesmen nosing into every stranger's business. At any sign of citizen anger, party officials respond quickly to keep the city quiet, fixing water mains or repairing broken heaters. The city's new technocratic mayor has permitted small, regular, controlled demonstrations at city hall to let citizens vent their spleen about unpaid pensions and missing salary checks. But there have also been...
Dowling denied allegations that he had ever discriminated on the basis of national origin, noting that his mother was an immigrant who never became a United States citizen...
Ahmed Sarhane has no illusions about those ideas. A Moroccan-born French citizen, Sarhane, 31, worked in Vitrolles as an auxiliary security guard. On the day of the municipal election, he and a fellow agent were mounted on a motorcycle, watching over a polling station in an immigrant neighborhood. Suddenly, three cars driven by National Front members pulled up. "Pack your bags," said one driver. "Tonight, you're out of here!" When Sarhane told him to back off, the man drove up on the sidewalk and rammed the motorcycle broadside. "They were trying to kill us," says Sarhane, who suffered...
...perfection clashed with John Carmack's vision of coding perfection and lost. Carmack saw id as a boutique company, cranking out one title a year based on his latest it'll-be-ready-when-it's-ready game engine--which left lead designer Romero feeling like a second-class citizen. "We were spending all this time making data for this engine that wasn't even done yet," Romero says, frustration still edging his voice, "and then we'd have to throw it all away because John decided to change something...