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All that's left of Taylorism among management consultants today is a pretense to scientific precision in whatever it is that consultants do, which generally involves parachuting into some situation, being smarter than everybody else, coming up with a solution--or at least a PowerPoint presentation--and then leaping onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McKinsey & Co. Fix the Government? | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

Martin's tone is not cautious, exactly, but careful. The writing is evocative, unflinching and cool. When he takes a scalpel to his life, what you feel is the precision of the surgeon more than the primal scream of the unanesthetized patient. "My biggest fear," he says, "was that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Martin, a Mild and Crazy Guy | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

You probably know what scratching is—moving the record back and forth while the needle’s down—but it’s far more complex than you’d think. DJs with staggering rhythmic precision and hand control can master techniques with names...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The All-Spin Zone | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

Au invited Shiftee to chill with his DJ crew, the Lo-Livez: DJ Cutfucious, DJ Precision, DJ Boogie Blind, and DJ Tragik.

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The All-Spin Zone | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

In Musicophilia, as in the books that made his literary name, Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks dives into the crevices of the human mind in search of a cure and surfaces with enlightenment for us all. We are irritatedly familiar, for example, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musicophilia: Song of Myself | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

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