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...oversee its current building renovations on Cambridge and North Harvard Streets, OIT hired Pyramid Electric corporation and Christakis Electric Company--companies which the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers claims provide poor working conditions...
...method is madness. "As Presidents have sought control of the governments they oversee, they have added increasingly redundant layers of middle managers at the expense of those who do the real work," says Paul Light, a public affairs professor at the University of Minnesota. "In government the classic organizational pyramid has become a pentagon, and it's moving toward becoming a diamond. The place to cut is in the middle, and if you do that you need even better-skilled and therefore better-paid senior managers to make sure the business gets done...
...Diego who makes the grand statements, the grand gestures: "Art is for the common man," he declares. His vision for it is neither pretty nor sexy. "You wouldn't fuck a pyramid, but that doesn't mean it's not art," he bellows...
...controlled almost every aspect of life and counted more than 20 million members in its prime, yet seemed to vanish overnight after the failed coup. A year later, the legacy of communist rule has proved difficult to erase. Democrats may be in control of the tip of the pyramid of power, but the middle levels are still dominated by bureaucrats from the old nomenklatura, who may have taken down their portraits of Lenin but pay only lip service to the new regime. In a show of strength last month, a coalition of hard-line communists and extreme nationalists tried...
...shipped across the Atlantic and put in a museum. One fragment of a 14th century mosaic dado from the Alhambra, however beautiful, is only a detail and cannot convey the overwhelming effect of the patterning on the palace's actual walls. Thus, although this exhibition looks fine inside the pyramid of the Met's Lehman Pavilion, its sum effect does not begin to equal the setting in which the Spanish public saw it earlier this year -- the Alhambra itself...