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...Enron, which launched the system among its fiercely competitive wholesale-energy traders a decade ago and has since expanded it to cover all the Houston-based company's 18,000 employees. In a typically intense session, as many as 25 managers may gather around a conference table in a windowless room with a computer screen filled with employee rankings projected on one wall. Each participant comes armed with notebooks bulging with job reviews. As the discussion proceeds, the managers may shift people from one ranking to another, deciding their fate with the click of a computer mouse...
...Mulgan, 39, heads the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office and is central casting's notion of what the Americans call a wonk: the serious, policy-driven young man who can argue for hours in a windowless conference room about the fine points of progressive taxation. He is also seriously charming, disarmingly direct and an unusual marriage of fresh thinker and hustling entrepreneur. In his previous life, he organized rock concerts for Labour, consulted on telecommunications, wrote books and founded the respected Third Way think tank Demos. After working for Blair at Downing Street, where he helped launch...
...omelettes. Leaving the Mojave Desert, the crew will head for U.S. Navy test waters in the Pacific. On order, they will release a Pegasus missile from under their right wing and send it roaring up into the sky. At 31 km, more than double civil aviation altitude, a black, windowless, pilotless sliver of finned metal shaped like a flattened dart will separate from the Pegasus' nose and scream down into the ocean. NASA estimates the X-43 will reach a cruising speed of Mach 7, seven times the speed of sound, or 2 km per second, in the few moments...
With SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC behind bars in a 36-sq.-ft. windowless cell (complete with squat toilet) in downtown Belgrade, a former crony emerged as the man whose testimony put him there. MIHALJ KERTES was chief of Customs from 1994 to 2000, placing him at the center of a criminal network that permeated the regime. It was through Kertes, investigators say, that as much as $4 billion in levies collected at Serbia's borders was diverted to Milosevic. Now, say Milosevic's lawyers, Kertes is telling all. To defend himself from that testimony, Milosevic said the stolen funds were...
Gertrude sits upright on a donated bed in a cardboard shack in a rough Durban township that is now the compass of her world. Perhaps 10 ft. square, the little windowless room contains a bed, one sheet and blanket, a change of clothes and a tiny cooking ring, but she has no money for paraffin to heat the food that a home-care worker brings. She must fetch water and use a toilet down the hill. "Everything I have," she says, "is a gift." Now the school that owns the land under her hut wants to turn it into...