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...entry of former criminals into society nearly impossible, perpetuates the “revolving door” in prisons, and leads to blind discrimination and glaring injustice.This issue concerns the whole state; 2.8 million of 6.5 million Massachusetts residents have CORIs and all workers and volunteers must undergo background checks before they can work with “sensitive” populations, i.e. children, the elderly, and the ill. Yet CORIs are practically unintelligble, both to employers and the people who have them because they are full of recondite abbreviations. This becomes a problem when employers use them to screen...
...TIME's inclusion of Sonia Gandhi was interesting. Her influence largely emanates from her renouncing power and allowing economist Manmohan Singh to become Prime Minister; staying in the background has enabled her to look after party affairs. It is her sphinxlike silence, dignified conduct and adoption of Indian culture that are largely responsible for her repeated re-election to Parliament by record margins. But Gandhi should act more assertively and deliver government change more speedily to the common man. Jagmohan Manchanda, New Delhi...
...greatest pleasures of festivalgoing are such unexpected ones as Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. It is set in 1987, during the final days of the Ceausescu regime, when the whole country seems to be in a sour mood. But politics are in the background of this taut, fraught drama about what goes wrong when a college student (Laura Vasiliu) seeks an illegal abortion. She and her roommate (Anamaria Marinca) are led to the ironically named Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), a stolid fellow with a sulfurous whiff of menace...
...doctor," says Meridian Group president Maggie Good, the expert who staged a more daring than anticipated rescue. "When they can't make payroll, I get parachuted in." Good, with a background in restructuring small to midsize companies, founded Meridian in 1988 to do turnaround consulting, investment banking and mergers and acquisitions. Her partner (and husband of 32 years) Tom Von Lehman, a chemist by training, had managed a division at PPG Industries, the big Pittsburgh, Pa., glass and chemical company. He joined her at Meridian in the post-9/11 press of business to provide management expertise. She works with...
...communication tool since humankind has existed," she says. "Music is a healer, a unifier. It breaks all the barriers between different nations. It relieves despair. It dampens war. Because when you listen to music, your brain is following your soul. I'm not scared by any genre, any musical background that is different from mine, because I know it's the same language...