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...more about inexpensive unmanned drones carrying smart munitions. In a legislative tour de force in November, he pushed through Congress an overhaul of the Pentagon's civil-service rules that will allow Defense Secretaries far more leverage to hire, fire and shift people around in the military's entrenched white-collar bureaucracies. The themes of all these moves are speed, stealth and efficiency--doing more with fewer people and fewer weapons--much as they were in the two wars he just fought. "Transformation is not about things, and it's not about technology," says General Richard Myers, Chairman...
...like China and India since 2000. Technology-industry analyst Forrester Research forecasts that 3.3 million U.S. service-industry jobs, many in information technology, will move offshore in the next 15 years, taking $136 billion in wages and slowing down wage growth. Better technology and more efficient management have eliminated white-collar jobs too. What that means, then, is that legions of unemployed workers will have to switch industries entirely to find employment, says Erica Groshen, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who coauthored a paper on the subject...
...photographs of the surging crowds in the frayed streets of old industrial cities, the "jumpers and screamers" along the motorcade route, may be the most intensely revealing history of this collection. Kennedy would later recall how the people pressing around him at street level were wildly supportive, while some white-collar workers high up in the buildings above were making obscene gestures at him. He knew he had to win it down below, and Lowe was there...
...believe Ronald Reagan's legacy is steadfastness. He didn't waver, didn't equivocate. Each and every American who voted for President Reagan, be they a Reagan democrat, blue- or white-collar, religious or not, whatever their affiliation, knew what they were voting for. I voted for President Reagan twice. Bill Clark New Jersey...
...where he felt the pull of pugilism first-hand. He is a wiry 50-year-old with perfectly coiffed hair, but look closely and you'll see a fine white line snaking above each eye - scars from the gym. He began to learn to box in 1998, when he was "looking down at the abyss of middle age and not fancying the drop." He heard about white-collar fights at New York's Gleason's Gym - once home of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson - and flew over to box a dentist (yes, a dentist) in March 1999. Upon his return...