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...Staff writer Bora Fezga can be reached at bfezga@fas.harvard.edu...
...another idea. What if employers made all employee salaries known? If you think about it, who is served by all the secrecy? Not you. It might irk you to learn that the junior analyst in the next cube really can afford his Bora Bora honeymoon-but that's all the more ammunition to gun for a raise. Transparency even benefits management, says Dave Cervone, a compensation expert at Challenger, Gray & Christmas. When he posted the staff salaries at a Chicago investment bank, he found that workers liked knowing where they stood. "It took away the mystery so they could focus...
...While embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan, he gets to fire a rocket launcher. His reaction, and you could have guessed this: "That was awesome!" He also has advice for the locals. To attract tourists, Spurlock suggests, they should build a theme park. "You could say, 'Come to Tora Bora. It's da bomb!'" Sometimes he's most engaging when he's most jackassian...
...money back. When Continental cancels my flight, they don’t just apologize over the loudspeaker and hand me a wad of cash. Please. I’m getting a free night’s stay at the Sheraton and enough flier credit to get me to Bora Bora the next morning...
Finally, if there is any failure in the war on terror, it is a joint American-Pakistani failure. Didn’t the U.S. soldiers let a cornered Osama bin Laden escape from under their noses in Tora Bora in Nov. 2001? Who squandered the best opportunity to arrest him, the Pakistanis or the Americans...