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...Crimson, for all it tries to be, is not a professional newspaper. It doesn't have a staff that editors can send on a road trip with a team. For sports reporters this means they're doing a lot of back-reporting, which is a far-from-ideal way to find out what's going on. It's also a good way to make mistakes...
Leyner's paranoid rhapsodies continue in "Great Prentenders," an essay on the dominance of a thespian conspiracy in modern society--the idea that your neighbors, for example, are not really neighbors, but actors hired by realestate salesmen to convey the image of an ideal neighborhood. Leyner calls this the "De Niro-ization' of culture...Migratory shifts back and forth from the real to the simulacrum [that] will calibrate the rest of history." "The Mary Poppins Kidnapping" pokes fun at the over-sensitive parents who worry that all forms of media, even the innocuous products of Disney, are dangerous influences...
...many ways. It does suggest, however, that while the players seem to be in the weaker negotiating position, the gains that they have made should not be repealed in the name of competitive balance and rising salaries. While having players play their whole careers with one team seems ideal, this type of realty should not be imposed...
This situation is changing, but many corporations' approach to the ideal of representative management is oblique. "Progressive" employers cite the advantages of minority representation in a world where the bases of power growincreasingly outside the domain of the white male. One chief executive described walking into a meeting with "an all-white male team" as "a tiebreaker negative." This view of token representation, where an employee's primary purpose and merit is her gender or race, is not progress. It feels like a form of exploitation...
This is a perversion of the ideal of a representative workforce. Below the glass ceiling, representation is sought only as a peripheral buffer around a corporation, for a world that demands it. Above it, in the senior management core, representation is sought only so long as it conforms to the wishes of the established. Instead of opening up senior management opportunity to a diverse candidacy pool, the executives who testified at the Commission partition minorities in work pools which serve very specific purposes of appearance...