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...their troops." Things didn't quite go according to plan. What has worked out, however, is the annual set of awards, established in 1901, that bear his name. They remain the most prestigious intellectual awards in the world. On Dec. 11, 2009, President Obama will travel to Oslo to accept the 90th Nobel Peace Prize, an honor that places him in the distinguished company of the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan and Mother Teresa. See the Top 10 Everything...
...selling insurance. "When those looking for high-end jobs are struggling, they become amazingly tolerant," says Douglas Klein, president of Sirota Survey Intelligence, a New York City--based research firm. "They'll take work for which they're underpaid and overqualified." For some, that flexibility means a willingness to accept a transitional position below the salary they're accustomed to--what's often called a survival or fallback job. Legendary investor Warren Buffett has said he would never take a job he wouldn't want to keep. And he stayed true to that, even before he was wealthy...
...like that make it unlikely the proceedings will wrap up before the Inauguration on Jan. 20--which will complicate Obama's task of closing the facility and ending an embarrassing chapter in the war on terrorism. In any event, the military judge, Army Colonel Stephen R. Henley, refused to accept the guilty pleas. He said he needed first to resolve the question of whether a plea--instead of a guilty verdict by a panel of judges--might actually prevent his court from imposing the death penalty. Even martyrdom can hinge on a technicality...
...person and some people say quite shy, she was born into public life,” Hunt said. “There is simply an osmosis in that.”‘LESS SWAGGER, AND MORE SWAY’ Many people have reportedly been encouraging Kennedy to accept the Senate post. According to Kellerman, Kennedy’s three children, including Rose Kennedy Schlossberg ’10, may be pushing their mother toward elected office.“It is said they were the ones who encouraged her to come out and support Obama relatively early...
...interest require these corporations to formally support the work of the common good through the mechanism of taxes. This is a mechanism that has its share of functional problems. But it is the best mechanism we have, and Americans—including most academics—have come to accept corporate taxation as a generally positive policy. One can hardly imagine President Faust petitioning the government to slash Microsoft’s tax rates...