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...Pentagon, which is calling for the largest defense budget since the cold war, has been floating scary threats lately. TIME has obtained a copy of a PowerPoint presentation that senior officers have been showing to groups around the U.S. warning that failure to stop Osama bin Laden and his ilk would have the same "consequences" as Europe's appeasement of the Nazis before World War II. Bullet points describe possible U.S. economic depression and Washington being forced into an "accommodation" with terrorists. Skeptics question the timing of such predictions. Says security analyst John Pike: "The Pentagon has a long tradition...
...White House's Roosevelt Room is wired for PowerPoint presentations, and most officials also bring handouts when they brief George W. Bush and his inner circle. But Budget Director Josh Bolten, who has spent months walking the President through a problem that could dramatically affect his legacy, sticks to colorful charts on old-fashioned easels. The lights stay on, so nobody dozes off, and there's no paper to wander through. It's dense material, after all. "I keep everyone's attention focused on what I want them to focus on," Bolten said...
...That was generally true, although the PowerPoint presentations of all but one other speaker were available on the website of the National of Bureau of Economic Research, which hosted the two-day conference and had made one of the two recordings of Summers’ speech. But in any event, the president’s office controlled the tapes, and releasing them was Mass. Hall’s prerogative...
...classes are taught at MIT is very different,” she said. “You can engage with the professor in a conversation and debate. At Harvard, economics lectures are PowerPoint, and that’s about...
...says. "We just kept finding people whom we trusted. And we learned and learned. We used the same skills we'd applied to business prospects." At one point, baffled by the organizational complexities of the U.N., Stonesifer called a man who works there and asked if he had a PowerPoint presentation that would explain how it all works. He did. "So he sent me a PowerPoint presentation, and Bill and Melinda and I went through it!" says Stonesifer...