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WHAT
LOU GERSTNER COULD TEACH BILL CLINTON
Robert Worth
IBM used to be run like the US government. The meetings
never ended, the work never got done, no one could get
fired, the money didn't come in and internecine fighting was
the name of the game. Lou Gerstner turned the company around
in five years and returned it to its glorious roots. Bill
Clinton could learn a lot from him.
SHOOTING
THE WHISTLE-BLOWER
Eric Umansky
Oil companies under-report the value of the oil that they
extract from public lands. Why do they do this? So they have
to pay less money to the government. But the government
seems not to care and it's the taxpayers who are being
squeezed. Read how this happened, why it happened and why
the oil companies are going to do whatever they can to shoot
down everyone who blows the whistle on their fraud.
TILTING
AT WINDMILLS
Charles Peters muses on: Marxist Medicine...
Permanent Temps... Sleepy Pilots,,, Broke Brokers, and
much more.
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FIRST
LADY OF THE NEW DEAL
Suzannah Lessard
Blanche Cooks "Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2" is a rich
tapestry that shows how one of the most important women of
our century let go of her personal pursuit of happiness as
she surged into her work serving the country politically. A
review of Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 2 by Blanche Wiesen
Cook.
FIRST
AT THE TIMES
Emily Yoffe
Charlotte Curtis was one of the first women to attain the
highest echelons of American journalism. She was well-known
in her day, yet only 12 years after her death she is almost
forgotten. Marilyn Greenwald's new biography probes Curtis'
struggles, and though it tells us a great deal about her,
writes Yoffe, the book fails to bring this fascinating and
driven woman fully to life.. A review of A A Woman of the
Times by Marilyn Greenwald.
INTERNET
CRISIS
Joseph Nocera
Financial crises often appear to be a quintessential
late-20th century phenomenon. Yet these crises have been
occuring for centuries, as Morris makes clear in his
well-written history. And they're likely to continue, adds
reviewer Joseph Nocera, pointing out one potential area for
such crises in the future: Internet startups. A review of
Money, Greed, and Risk by Charles R. Morris.
WHO'S
WHO?
The Monthly's own Susan Threadgill gives the the
lowdown on the movers, the shakers, and just plain bad
dancers in the Washington political world.
MONTHLY
JOURNALISM AWARDS
The Washington Monthly salutes the best of the best.
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