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...pursuit of a simpler life with deeper meaning is a major shift in America's private agenda. ''This is a rapid and extremely powerful movement,'' says Ross Goldstein, a San Francisco psychologist and market researcher. ''I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country.'' Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: ''We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history.'' Some...
...shift in priorities has a surface gloss of stylishness also. Call it thrifty chic. Penny pinching is back in vogue, even among the rich. Jackie O. shops at the Gap. Christie Brinkley wears plain white men's T shirts. Outside B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once...
...corporations—are us, nothing more and nothing less. No matter what kind of laws Congress passes, citizens will band together and try to influence government as long as government tries to influence us. By banning soft money donations to political parties, McCain-Feingold will force money to shift from parties, which are broad coalitions that appeal to the center in order to build majorities and are accountable at the ballot box, to independent groups that answer only to their own members...
...headquarters shift is Condit's dramatic coda to a corporate overhaul designed to take Boeing into businesses that are growing faster on average than aircraft manufacturing, which is subject to severe cycles. In the past five years, Boeing (2000 sales: $51.3 billion) has purchased McDonnell Douglas (F-15s) and the satellite division of Hughes Electronics and Rockwell International's space and defense units. These far-flung companies--Rockwell and Hughes are in California, MDD in St. Louis, Mo.--will compete for capital and talent with the eponymous aircraft division. "This is about nimbleness and flexibility. It's about being organized...
...root causes of bullying. Dorothy Espelage, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who co-authored a study on bullies, favors a comprehensive approach. "As soon as you pull a bully out of a school, another will take his place," she says. A deeper shift in school culture is required, she argues, because ultimately peer groups, not individuals, promote an ethic of aggression. She adds, "We need to change the climate so that most kids feel it's inappropriate to tease and harass...