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...highlights Catalina Sandino Moreno--in her first professional role--stars as the willful Maria, a young Colombian who, faced with few options in life, decides to become a drug mule. Director Joshua Marston's commentary on the DVD provides a historical backdrop, talking extensively about the drug trade in the U.S. and Colombia...
Even if the next five years wind up as choppy as the past five, stocks probably won't kill you--and could bring a tidy gain. Most pros see economic growth of 3% to 4% ahead, a healthy backdrop for profits, and also expect the dollar to fall. That's a good combination for the big U.S. multinationals that dominate the stock indexes. After five years of small stocks doing best, says T. Rowe's Notzon, the pendulum should swing back to large stocks that pay a dividend...
...speech comes against the backdrop of widespread faculty criticism following reports that women received only four of the 32 tenure offers from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) last year...
...Cooper, professor of organizational psychology and health at the U.K.'s Lancaster University Management School, estimates that lost productivity from bullying costs developed economies around 1% of gross domestic product. Who's to blame? More often than not it's a stressed boss venting frustration on subordinates. Against a backdrop of slow growth or high unemployment, pressure to perform and increased competition can lead to bullying. "People are worried about their jobs and tend to be less supportive of their colleagues," says Bärbel Meschkutat, co-author of a German government-backed study into bullying. Sweden and France have...
Morgan Stanley strategist Byron Wien has posed "10 surprises" annually for 20 years. "I see a tough backdrop this year," says Wien. His 2005 list...