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...they could probably brew Guinness." Varian, an Irishman who previously worked in the U.K. petrochemicals industry, strove to help his staff see the global picture; he dismantled long-standing hierarchies and gave employees challenging new tasks. Frontline personnel, like keg assembly-line operators and brew-house managers, now discuss departmental budgets...
...Hossain. But there is widespread consensus that the opposition must also do its part to heal the country's poisoned political culture. "The bitter fighting between the two parties has allowed the fundamentalists to grow in strength," says editor Rahman. While Zia has offered to meet the opposition to discuss the assassination attempt, Hasina dismisses the idea of a reconciliation. "With whom should I meet?" she said to TIME. "With the killers...
...There is a reluctance on the part of African Americans and whites to deal with slavery," says former Virginia Governor Doug Wilder, who conceived the National Slavery Museum, scheduled to open in 2007. "People don't want to discuss it. 'Let's get past it,' they say. Well, I say that attitude is insulting to our history. We need to develop a conscious awareness of how far we've come...
...sailing the South Seas in the 1850s, bound for the gold fields of California, when she comes upon Bethlehem Bay, so renamed by missionaries who have ventured to the Society Islands to "civilize" the natives. When the shipmen and the emissaries of religion meet on the island,they naturally discuss (in perfect Melvillean cadences) the survival of the fittest and the plans of God. Yet all their talk of progress and a New Jerusalem has a slightly piquant air because we know what the future holds in store for them. An earlier section in Cloud Atlas (Random House; 509 pages...
Hastings, 43, is modest about his firm. "I'm a funny kind of guy to be running a consumer company," he says, admitting that he would just as soon discuss artificial intelligence. He thinks he can win the battle with WalMart, which launched a copycat service in 2002, and Blockbuster, which plans to try a similar rental program in the U.S. soon. Hastings has an advantage: like Amazon, Netflix relies on ratings--up to five stars--by its members, who are asked to weigh in on what they rent. These ratings go into the system's algorithm, and out come...