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...last week, rounding up a crew and planning to head east. "In a twisted way, I'm looking forward to it," he says. "I've always felt New Orleans was my second home, so I will help rebuild it, and make a pile of money." The recovery has already begun. --With reporting by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Jyoti Thottam, Dody Tsiantar and Deirdre van Dyk/New York, Wendy Grossman/ Houston and Douglas Waller/Washington
...just as hard as men. But to do so, corporate cultures must change to accommodate non-traditional work styles; corporations will not be taking a hit, but yielding the same productivity. For example, many companies—among them Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, and I.B.M.—have begun to not only increase the amount of paid family leave time, but also encourage telecommuting and video conferencing, and deemphasizing face-time and late-night office hours...
...apparent that the roadblock to change isn’t economic; if anything, the companies that have begun to change their work climate recognize the advantage in making use of the forty-six percent of the workforce who are women. Rather, as tends to be the case, a cultural stagnancy with a long legacy is to blame. As late as 1971, Richard Nixon vetoed a bill to create a national child-care system, deeming it a threat to the American family...
...During a term abroad in East Africa, I acquired the impolite habit of asking non-Tanzanians why they’d come to Tanzania. My own reason was to learn Swahili and to get a sense of the place whose history I’d begun to study seriously...
...past couple of years that I started to fully appreciate the power of what?s going on in the blogosphere," says former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, a likely Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. "These changes are coming and we can either fight them or embrace them." Warner has begun calling bloggers in Iowa, the site of the first presidential caucuses - among them Chris Woods, who writes for a site called politicalforecast.net...