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...corporate conference room. The classrooms are interspersed among faculty offices and meeting areas so the "bosses" and the "workers" can bump into one another. The school also boasts a high-speed computer network with ports at each desk, teleconferencing hookups and large projection screens for those inevitable PowerPoint presentations...
...alarming when one secret agency's work spilled into the open recently, only to be dismissed by almost everyone involved. Meeting last month in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's private conference room, a group called the Defense Policy Board heard an outside expert, armed only with a computerized PowerPoint briefing, denounce the Saudis for being "active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader." Such claims have been on the rise since Sept. 11, when 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. Relatives of those killed...
Berger had left the room by the time Clarke, using a Powerpoint presentation, outlined his thinking to Rice. A senior Bush Administration official denies being handed a formal plan to take the offensive against al-Qaeda, and says Clarke's materials merely dealt with whether the new Administration should take "a more active approach" to the terrorist group. (Rice declined to comment, but through a spokeswoman said she recalled no briefing at which Berger was present.) Other senior officials from both the Clinton and Bush administrations, however, say that Clarke had a set of proposals to "roll back" al-Qaeda...
...institutional settings such as schools and businesses and via a handful of pay networks that serve hotels, cafes, airports and convention centers. The benefits are obvious to the traveling exec who logs on to his corporate network from an airport lounge, downloads the latest revision of a huge PowerPoint file and arrives fresh and unmussed at his presentation...
...keyboard confident from about third grade, have developed the skills and comfort with technology that are vital for success in the job market. (Trust me on this: these days, when I have to give a speech, my daughters, ages 11 and 13, turn my scribbled notes into a PowerPoint presentation.) And unlike German and Japanese students, who are talked at by teachers for most of their school years, American students learn social skills and group work in environments that celebrate diversity...