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Encourage Employee Socializing |
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| Topic: Business |
5:54 pm EDT, Jun 19, 2004 |
It's The Tipping Point meets The Office. A forthcoming book on companies' social networks points out that collaboration has a cost, in the form of ever-more meetings and e-mails that serve to bog down employees rather than unleash them. Instead of indiscriminately pursuing greater communication, managers would do well to figure out how to optimize the flow of information among their employees. Central Connectors, Boundary Spanners, Information Brokers, Peripheral People. Encourage Employee Socializing |
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| Topic: Military |
5:35 pm EDT, Jun 19, 2004 |
A Go Approach to Mastering China's Strategic Concept, "shi" By better understanding Go, American strategists could better understand Chinese strategy. A never ending process: new strategic concepts constantly emerge, some fade away, a few pass the tests of suitability, feasibility, and acceptability and make it into the mainstream. It will be too late to consult experts when grave occasions arise. National leaders must make strategic thinking and employment of tactical skills part of their second nature. Learning from the Stones |
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Despite Desperate Public Outcry, 'People Meter' Plans Proceed Apace |
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| Topic: Surveillance |
9:14 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
The battle over ... plans to modernize ... has become far more than the typical dispute. "We've never had an attack orchestrated this way. We were not ready for this." This latest controversy centers on ... electronic devices known as people meters ... The plan is to switch Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco to people meters this year. "If you go ahead, we will do everything possible to discredit you." "These were absolutely smart tactics. They identified the opposition's weakness and then exploited it in a short-term tactical adventure." Despite Desperate Public Outcry, 'People Meter' Plans Proceed Apace |
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| Topic: Literature |
8:56 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
No matter how you choose to explain the world, the garden still needs cultivating. ... none of this seemed very important, the weeding, the watering, the planting. Surely there were more important things to do: calls to make, books and articles and editorials to write, news to follow, beat by beat. Candide's Advice |
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Kobra Videos - Experience Kobra Quality. |
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| Topic: Music |
8:52 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
This site provides you with high quality mpeg music video rips. To download the videos, you will need mirc. Also, you can get videos through Torrents. Kobra Videos - Experience Kobra Quality. |
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The CIA as History's Editor |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
8:44 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
After weeks of delay, the CIA has decreed that much of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on intelligence failures is too sensitive for the public to know. ... a blacked-out work of art ... "Why, in this day and age, with so many diverse sources of information and entertainment, is it really necessary to read this one particular document? A large number of Beautiful People have worked very hard to produce oh so many pretty music videos for you to watch, and you'd rather read a Committee report? And the video games -- don't forget the video games. Especially those cleverly irreverent titles from Rockstar, with so much glorious swearing, and ladies, and guns, and money. Don't you have anything better to do with your time?" The CIA as History's Editor |
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'A Problem from Hell' : America and the Age of Genocide |
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| Topic: International Relations |
8:40 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy -- asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power provides the answer in "A Problem from Hell" -- a groundbreaking work that tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. Debunking the notion that US leaders were unaware of the horrors ... Power makes it clear that a lack of political will was the most significant factor for this failure ... This powerful book is a call to make such indifference a thing of the past. 'A Problem from Hell' : America and the Age of Genocide |
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| Topic: Literature |
8:37 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
"Hot Type with Evan Solomon" is a weekly half-hour exploration of ideas and issues in print, with a mix of fiction and non-fiction writers. The episode currently airing (it's a repeat) is a review of Samantha Power's "A Problem from Hell", winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Why is it that after every cry of "Never again!" following each wave of genocide - Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda - does the American government sit idly by, allowing "again" to happen - again and again? Telling truths that few want to hear, yet with mesmerizing story-telling ability ... Power's work is particularly relevant ... Hot Type |
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| Topic: Society |
8:32 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
A thuggish militia known as the Janjaweed has terrorized non-Arab communities in Sudan. Women have been raped and branded, villages razed and crops destroyed. More than 15,000 people have been killed and about a million more driven from their homes. Bush administration lawyers are busily studying whether this meets the legal definition of genocide, but that misses the point. Hundreds of thousands of lives may depend on quick, firm action. Time for Action on Sudan |
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Panel Says Bush's Space Goals Are Feasible |
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| Topic: High Tech Developments |
8:29 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
"It's not going to be easy, but it can be done. There are a lot of details to work out." The commission said that it unanimously endorsed Mr. Bush's plan ... "The long-term, ambitious space agenda advanced by the president for robotic and human exploration will significantly help the United States protect its technological leadership, economic vitality and security." Among the report's most sweeping recommendations are the establishment of a Space Exploration Steering Council in the White House to oversee a space effort that would involve numerous agencies; having NASA contract out all but its most specialized tasks to private industry to help build up space business; and the transformation of NASA field centers into research and development centers run by universities or private companies, much like the Energy Department's national laboratories. Panel Says Bush's Space Goals Are Feasible |
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