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...emergence of a distinct female style has hardly transformed workplaces into cozy dens of peace and goodwill. For one thing, not many women have arrived at positions that are truly high enough to influence a corporate culture. Says Lester Korn, chairman of the executive-recruiting firm Korn/ Ferry International: "Most successful women have adapted to the fact that it's a male world. They have not, by and large, changed the way that business is done...
...least compared with supercomputer building or gene splicing. But the automobile, with its 10,000 parts and ever increasing complexity, remains one of the most challenging products to manufacture and a telling measure of an industrial society's capabilities. "Saturn will have enormous psychological impact on American business," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. "If Saturn is successful, it will prove that it's possible to junk the old bureaucracies, change the corporate culture, change the adversarial relationship between union and management, and put it all back together right. If they succeed, it will...
...crime. To hear Young speak, he loosed a shower of gold over the city -- 1,000 new companies located there (300 from overseas), $70 billion invested ($11 billion from overseas), 700,000 new jobs created. Yet to critics, Atlanta should be his burden, not his boost. Lester Maddox, the clownish ex-Governor running for his old job, said to Young in a televised debate, "You ran Crime City." FBI statistics show a 50% increase in the crime rate during Young's eight years in office...
...Bela answered. At 31, Fleck has surpassed the semiretired Scruggs -- who, with guitarist Lester Flatt, fronted the nation's best-known bluegrass band from 1948 until 1969 -- as a banjo virtuoso, taking this jangling folk instrument into jazz, classical music and beyond. Three times a Grammy nominee and a perennial winner of the Frets magazine poll as banjoist of the year, Fleck now has a potential crossover hit: a jazz-inflected album called Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Warner Bros.). Released in March, the album has been bulleted on the jazz charts and has sold a respectable 55,000 units...
...comment represents intolerance in its purest form. It establishes an orthodoxy of thought, and Blacks must embrace it or else face excommunication for their "white" views. The ostracism of those who dissent from the mainstream is not unique to the Black community, but, as the experiences of Julius Lester, Glenn Loury and Clarence Thomas demonstrate, neither is that community immune to the internal bigotry that is the enemy of diversity...