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...considering they are well short of the votes they need to override the veto. It looks all but certain that they will have to jettison the bill's deadlines for troop withdrawal - a move that is certain to lose some of their more liberal members, but that could attract support from Republicans, who are facing increasing impatience for progress in Iraq from their voters at home. And while there is still some discussion of a "short leash" strategy - passing a small funding bill, and continuing to fight - that idea is losing steam, because Democratic leaders believe it would simply give...
...chats, IAC is taking a hands-off approach to monitoring what goes on at Zwinktopia. "It' s going to be a learning process," says Dorcas Casey, IAC's director of product strategy, when asked where the company draws the line on inappropriate behavior. If Zwinktopia really hopes to attract kids aged 13 and up without sending their parents into cardiac arrest, it might want to speed that process...
...least in our society, inappropriate, my attachment to Alcott remains. There comes a time when we are supposed to discard children’s books and read “real” literature. Yet something about the books adults read when they’re young continues to attract and influence them. Books like the Harry Potter series and Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy owe a large part of their success to fact that they’ve managed to attract adult readerships. And adults still seek to justify...
Some decades ago, the powers that be declared that employee diversity was a good thing, as desirable as double-digit profit margins. It's proving just as difficult to achieve. Companies try all sorts of things to attract and promote minorities and women. They hire organizational psychologists. They staff booths at diversity fairs. They host dim-sum brunches and salsa nights. The most popular--and expensive--approach is diversity training, or workshops to teach executives to embrace the benefits of a diverse staff. Too bad it doesn't work...
ERIC BANA played Banner in Ang Lee's poorly received 2003 film. Overshadowed by his massive, computer-generated Hulk persona, Bana didn't attract many fans. Will Norton fare better in what Marvel calls a "do-over"? Don't answer; you might make him angry...