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...near-capacity crowd roared with delight. Harvard coach Satinder Bajwa grinned from ear to ear as he bustled around congratulating his players. The defeated Trinity squad slunk off to the locker room...
...where else? - presiding over his group of toadying yes-men in a boardroom. He sports a puppet on top of his head as some sort of crazed motivational device. "What is the half-life of your innovation?" he screams, in a perfect parody of corporate newspeak. Hart's musical ear for creating nonsense versions of the aerobicized cynicism of biz language becomes one of the book's biggest pleasures. When Worner later runs into a disguised Hutch spewing stream of consciousness poetry he thinks he's finally found someone who's "not afraid to be an idiot for the bottom...
...Some European analysts take heart from the idea that while Colin Powell, whom many had regarded as a kindred spirit, had been a marginal figure in the Bush administration, Dr. Rice is widely known to have the President's ear and to speak for him. President Bush's trust and confidence in Rice give her a certain authority to speak on his behalf, in contrast to Powell whose authority was undermined in his first month on the job when President Bush publicly repudiated positions he'd articulated on North Korea. Rice's privileged relationship with the White House means that...
...Again I wrote about the music that has captured and transported me; I said that "anyone with half an ear will hear the most vibrant, varied new score in ages. Audiences will walk out of Bombay Dreams humming Rahman's songs and singing his praises. If music is the crucial part of a musical, then Rahman's genius will ensure that Bollywood conquers Broadway." Again I hoped that a show might be successful, and its songs click with listeners, broaden our currently cramped musical lexicon...
...intelligence-based approach abroad, helping police in other countries boost their skills, combat transnational crime, and keep the peace in trouble spots. Its sleuths may not be as visible as their high-profile boss, but they're out there: from Bogot? to Riyadh to Papua New Guinea, keeping an ear to the local bush telegraph and building high-tech information networks that span the globe. "The A.F.P. has demonstrated its capacity to serve the government of the day, the community and indeed the regional community," Keelty tells Time. "The work we are doing in the region will be a foundation...