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...needed. Every two weeks, managers head to see O'Malley or his top aides on the sixth floor of city hall to account for how well they have done just that. Workers who fare well can end up with Orioles tickets; managers who fall short have wound up with pink slips. The program has saved the city $100 million, O'Malley aides say. Last year Harvard University praised CitiStat for slashing overtime paid to city workers and cutting absenteeism in half at some agencies...
What on earth is taking place? Over here, ten teenage kids in green tops and white miniskirts are jerking their heads into the air, then locking elbows, back to back, to form a herd of lurching pushmi-pullyus. Over there, a gang of pink-lipsticked, sunglassed young blonds, in matching scarlet outfits, have gathered in a circle around a giant radio and are joining together in a chorus of banshee wails. And all about, twirling, swirling, waving their hands in the air Al Jolson-style or vaulting on top of one another's shoulders are girls with turquoise streaks...
...what's with all these well-regimented drills? A battalion of cadets goose-steps along a tennis court. Not far away, another uniformed squad executes a series of elaborate routines with shields. A dozen little girls, clad in shocking-pink leotards, parade forward and wriggle in formation to the tune of Ghostbusters, each with a small black rifle in her hand. And then, all of a sudden, there comes a thumping of feet and a building of intensity and the thunderous eruption of a mass-rally chant: "U.S.A. Fight! Fight! Fight...
...coach the sport professionally, because you may take three full steps before and after dribbling. And, yes--here three or four bodies splat together and hit the floor--because very aggressive body checking is permitted. "Awright, way to deck her, Sandra!" yells a 6-ft.-tall woman athlete in pink shorts and a muscle shirt...
...their town of 240,000, which lies in a prosperous manufacturing area in China's Zhejiang province. Each had completed a questionnaire on local affairs as well as a poll in which they rated the desirability of 30 government-proposed infrastructure projects. Some giggled as they pinned on pink badges labeling them "popular-will representatives." But most fell silent when they entered the school's auditorium. No one knew what to expect. Or exactly what was meant by the characters on the banner over the podium, which read: "Zeguo's 2005 Selecting a Development Plan, Democratic Earnest Discussion...