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...managers may gather around a conference table in a windowless room with a computer screen filled with employee rankings projected on one wall. Each participant comes armed with notebooks bulging with job reviews. As the discussion proceeds, the managers may shift people from one ranking to another, deciding their fate with the click of a computer mouse...
...vision for reform. And, say several people close to him, Blair is changing. "He's more confident," says one. "There's a serenity that's new." In this case, will the personal become the political? If, as Blair says, the success of his reforms depends on decentralizing power, the fate of the two Britains may depend to a surprising degree on what is happening inside the mind...
...soul, he never acknowledged it, and on this morning, six years after the terrible bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the victims of his crime may have finally felt that fate had reckoned with their loss...
...President Bush read a brief statement after the execution, saying, "This morning the United States of America carried out the severest sentence for the gravest of crimes. The victims of the Oklahoma City bombing have been given not vengeance, but justice. And one young man met the fate he chose for himself six years ago. For the survivors of the crime and for the families of the dead, the pain goes on. Final punishment of the guilty cannot alone bring peace to the innocent. It cannot recover the loss or balance the scales, and it is not meant...
...final verdict on the Crimson's postseason fate came quickly enough, as the host of the selection show began announcing the seedings for the tournament...