Word: bernard
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...mounting legal and commercial challenges while struggling to regain its standing as the nation's largest kosher meat supplier, residents of this town of 2,273 are nervous. The company sought to address concerns in the community and beyond last week by hiring a new CEO, New York attorney Bernard S. Feldman. "I have every intention of making Agriprocessors a model of kosher production," Feldman said in a statement, pledging that the company will work closely with governmental agencies concerned with product safety, labor rights and the humane treatment of animals. Feldman's appointment came a day after the plant...
...contemporary writer has done more to inform Western perceptions of Islam than Bernard Lewis. His seminal 1950 work, The Arabs in History, still holds up as one of the definitive accounts of the Arab world. Some of his more recent books have examined the rising anti-Western mood in the Islamic world. Coming after 9/11, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East and The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror seek to explain the roots of extremism. His take on these subjects has often been controversial; some scholars accuse him of being...
...impact of malaria, however, is still massive. "Whether it's 200 million or 500 million [cases], that's a lot of infections with a big health burden and a big economic burden," says Bernard Nahlen, deputy coordinator of the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative - especially, he says, "for something that is treatable and to a large extent preventable. If your child's life can be saved by treatment for 50 cents, you should treat...
...month after an accounting scandal made headlines, the telecommunications company, once the second largest long-distance carrier in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy. Several WorldCom executives subsequently pleaded guilty to fraud charges, with CEO Bernard Ebbers sentenced to 25 years in prison. The company emerged from bankruptcy...
Apart from their constitutionality, of course, the other question surrounding curfews is whether they are effective. Bernard Harcourt, author of Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy, argues that good police work is the better answer. He compares imposing curfew ordinances to "using a Band-Aid on a patient who is hemorrhaging - you might be able to stop the blood flow in one spot, but it's not going to help the bleeding." Problems like drug use, gun possession and gang membership, he insists, won't go away "just because you force youths to stay at home...