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...segregation, mean that urban black voters are particularly situated to swing the election to Kerry. Blacks make up a huge percentage of the central cities in the major swing states for the election: Milwaukee, Wis.; Detroit, Mich.; St. Louis and Kansas City, Miss.; and most importantly, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pa. and Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio. If Kerry wins every state that Gore won in 2000 (and he is leading in polls in each) plus Ohio or Florida—he wins the election...
...remake of The Office, starring Daily Show alum Steve Carell, for next year--a nerve-racking prospect, given that NBC's last such import was Coupling. Executive producer Greg Daniels (King of the Hill) says the show will have a new setting--the Dunder-Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pa.--but similar characters and sensibility. "We love the awkward pause," he says...
Some of the techniques are surprisingly low tech. At Pitt Ohio Express, a trucking company based in Pittsburgh, Pa., claims auditors take turns wearing a special black baseball cap to signal that they are absorbed in a project. Department head Lois Beggs says she takes several hours "under the cap" to catch up on her 150 emails a day when she has been away from the office. At Quarasan, an educational-product developer in Chicago, workers take "focus blocks" of up to three hours when they absolutely cannot be interrupted. "They know they don't have to jump when someone...
Describe yourself in three words: PA FOR LIFE...
...Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 image of a handcuffed Viet Cong captive shot at point-blank range by a South Vietnamese police chief on a Saigon street during the Vietnam War; of Lou Gehrig's disease; in New York City. As a teenager in New Kensington, Pa., he charged $20 to shoot weddings and went on to cover 13 wars for such news outlets as the Associated Press, LIFE magazine and Parade. He also took moving portraits, many of them black and white, of world leaders, activists and entertainers, but he was forever haunted by his iconic Vietnam photo, which...