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JOHN ROCK HAS NEVER FITTED THE GENERAL MOTORS MOLD, EVEN though he spent 32 years as a GM troubleshooter in posts all over the world. He always refused to join a country club, instead preferring to build roads and dig wells on his 185-acre Montana spread. He seldom hid his differences with GM's top brass, often phrasing his protests in barnyard epithets. Last year, when he found himself sidelined in a staff job, the restless Rock prepared to take one of GM's early-retirement packages...
Reporters would normally acknowledge leaks by citing "unnamed sources" or "officials who refused to be identified." The readers seldom consider the reason that this unnamed official consented to be interviewed. Government officials do not talk to the press off-the-record out of the goodness of their hearts or from a profound respect for the democratic process. Instead, officials leak information because it is in their interest to have a certain message broadcast by the media...
...ALWAYS PUBLICLY STOOD behind them, but he seldom led them anywhere. For nearly four years, George Bush's economic advisers squabbled and struggled with little positive guidance and woeful political results. Last week Bush gave them their most unequivocal direction so far: he showed them the door. As a political sacrifice play, the beleaguered President put out the word that in a second term he would replace his economic team, including Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, Budget Director Richard Darman and chief economist Michael Boskin. To fill the void, Bush said he would appoint chief of staff James Baker as domestic...
...families change, so will the look of new communities. Is this the suburb of the future? On Bainbridge Island, Washington, 30 families dwell in a five-acre pedestrian village where doors are seldom locked, townspeople share cooking duties and even the children have their own rule-making committee. Based on an idea pioneered in Scandinavia, the Winslow CoHousing Group is a kind of commune gone condo that tries to merge the best elements of two very different styles of community life: the efficiency and fellowship of a collective with the privacy and equity of home ownership...
...Seldom is there not a police officer in the restaurant and often there is a whole group of officers sitting at a table downing a large plate of al dente pasta and sauce...