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...Andrea is being held without bail at a Houston jail. At a Friday morning court appearance, she told a District Court judge she could not afford to hire an attorney; the state will assign a public defender. Yates is expected to face at least one charge of capital murder. If convicted, she could be sentenced to death...
...POLICE ASK CONGRESSMAN TO TALK ABOUT INTERN." Right next to that story is a picture of a woman wearing glasses, staring straight ahead, with her hands in her lap, and a caption that is disturbing in a different vein: "Andrea Yates in custody yesterday after calling officers to her Houston home, where her four sons and one daughter, ages 6 months to 7 years, had all apparently been drowned in a bathtub. The police said Ms. Yates had been fighting depression and had confessed to the killings...
Ranking and yanking is nothing new at Enron, which launched the system among its fiercely competitive wholesale-energy traders a decade ago and has since expanded it to cover all the Houston-based company's 18,000 employees. In a typically intense session, as many as 25 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...
Penalizing the weakest member of a small group can be dangerous to a company's legal health. "If you do not have clear-cut differences, it is very difficult to justify laying off that person," says Paul Gregory, a Houston attorney who specializes in employment law. That's particularly true if the person had been told for years that his or her work was fine. "Part of the problem with rank and yank," Gregory says, "is that most managers were not trained to give honest evaluations, so no honest, critical history exists...
Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton, agreed in April to pay $100 million for Magic Earth of Houston, which makes images like the one at left. Such 3-D computer maps are assembled from seismic data and, along with soaring energy prices, are helping drive the global oil-and-gas-exploration business. Magic Earth's "data-mining" software provides geologists with color-coded guides to rock formations and fluid densities. Its visual clues, says CEO Michael Zeitlin, can be analyzed more quickly and accurately than reams of numbers and graphs. And its improved accuracy means drilling fewer dry holes, reducing...