How Much Can I Control?

THE BROAD panoramic sweep of Los Angeles out the windows of my seventeenth-floor executive office can be impressive in scope. There are few buildings in the city which tower above my windows; none which block the immense stretch of view, ranging from the mountains to the sea. The city, famous for smog and haze, was particularly clear in the early afternoon sun that Friday. The sky's deep, clean blue formed a magnificent backdrop for the scene below.