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...Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Andy Card and Ann Veneman, the new Agriculture Secretary designate, all worked for Bush's father. Paul O'Neill, the Treasury designate, spent ten years as a budget whiz in Washington before working for International Paper and Alcoa. Mitch Daniels, the new budget czar, worked for Dick Lugar before going to Eli Lilly...
...party's right wing hasn't missed the most distinctive thing about the Bush team's ideology--it's lack of any to speak of. Aside from his notably conservative running mate, Dick Cheney, nearly everybody on most of the Bush short lists for a top position--from logistics-whiz Joe Allbaugh to international-law consultant Robert Zoellick--is an experienced Republican pragmatist. Yet Bush's aides have been sensitive to the conservative voices in the party. You can see it in the debate over how Bush is assembling--perhaps the word is reassembling--a foreign policy team...
...time the deal was in motion, discord and age had sent several top members of Chrysler's dream team--vice chairman Bob Lutz, chief engineer Francois Castaing and manufacturing whiz Dennis Pawley--into the Detroit sunset. The demands of the merger made things worse. Meetings, transatlantic travel and continued distrust over Schrempp's intentions distracted executives in Chrysler's Auburn Hills, Mich., headquarters. Chairman Bob Eaton, who had pushed for the Daimler merger, became increasingly detached from the company's operations--but not so much that he couldn't fire Chrysler president Tom Stallkamp last year. Schrempp may not have...
...more practical, down-to-earth business of making the Web more readable. He uses the jargon of Internet ecology, talking about the way we "forage" for information and hunt its "scent" to produce a balanced "diet." But that doesn't make his tools and results any less gee-whiz than Gold's. Step into Card's lab, and he will show you the device he uses on his test subjects, a metal headpiece with little cameras positioned in front of each eye. This scary-looking machine records your saccadic jumps while you hunt for information, and notes how long...
...Fanning, 20, whose ingenious file-sharing program, Napster, had created the world's biggest online free-music community--one that was costing Middelhoff and the rest of the music industry many millions of dollars in lost sales. But by the time they tucked into their steaks, the code-writing whiz was digesting the media mogul's sermon on the Internet being the world's first viable commercial democracy...