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According to Salon magazine staffers, Washington bureau chief Jonathan Broder was fired because he promised his boss he would keep his strong objection to Salon's controversial Henry Hyde expos? to himself -- and then broke that agreement by talking to the Washington Post. Broder committed a "fundamental violation of the trust that any organization must have in its employees," Salon editor David Talbot told the New York Times, in what has become the official version of the events that led to Broder's ouster...
Instead he wants the city to build a combination stadium/fantasy land. Must be hard times for Boss George. The most valuable team in professional sports isn't much of an asset these days...
Wouldn't it be great if you could call your friends or family, your boss or stockbroker--even while you're trekking in the Himalayas? If you didn't have to lug around one of those briefcase-size satellite phones, but instead had a cell phone just slightly larger than the one you carry now? How much of a premium would you be willing to pay for such convenience? Two American-based firms with a list of global backers that reads like a high-tech Who's Who are rolling the dice in a multibillion-dollar gamble that they...
...reason he can relax is that he can safely put his entire family's financial nightmares behind him. He can play for those nobler causes--team and honor--that we Americans are rich enough to have invented. Sure, Sosa was looking out for himself--trying to impress his boss--but was that really so bad? And is he really different now, or are we just more tolerant because he's delivering? Isn't humility just the moment when accomplishment outweighs cockiness...
...people take lying for granted. If our leaders are thieves, it is because we do not mind the thieving--except, of course, when we ourselves get robbed. If our leaders are oppressive, it is because too many people in this country are wailing for the khozyain, the autocratic boss. Of course, once we Russians have ourselves a khozyain, we will become alienated from him anyway because the mistrust of authority runs that deep. But have him we will, quite soon, since freedom and democracy are dirty words in Russia today. Most Russians have never realized that freedom requires responsibility, that...