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What matters most to mothers returning to work? KAUFMAN: Getting time off, getting flexible schedules. Not just asking a boss for an afternoon here or there, but having regular flexibility. Women who made the decision to stay home don't want to abandon their lifestyle and go back to 40 or 60 hours a week...
...hung low on a brisk January dawn in 2001, as several dozen police agents silently rolled into position in the rugged hills around Mezzojuso, a sleepy town 40 km south of Palermo. For months, investigators had been casing a red-roofed concrete house where they believed top Mafia bosses were planning an important lunchtime summit. Benedetto Spera, among the most feared and powerful figures in Cosa Nostra, was also scheduled to get a doctor's visit at the hillside farmhouse that day to treat his prostate cancer. The summit was considered so important that authorities suspected Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian...
They hit it off immediately, says former New Jersey Jewish News editor David Twersky, who later became friends with Cipel. In the late 1990s, Cipel had worked as a press officer at the Israeli consulate in New York City. Gideon Mark, who was Cipel's boss there, says Cipel handled both national and New Yorkarea news outlets, which would have given him some familiarity with New Jersey. "He was talented but not brilliant," says Colette Avital, the consul general at the time. Another person who worked with Cipel back then says he "was the kind of guy who was politically...
...likes to have his boss looking over his shoulder. But Shigeki Ishizuka, head of Sony's digital-camera division, says he is unfazed whenever Shizuo Takashino--Sony's executive deputy president and one of the legendary team that created the Walkman--drops by. "I look forward to seeing him," Ishizuka says with a laugh, adding that he is always prepared for Takashino's frequent suggestion to "make it smaller...
DIED. CARMINE DE SAPIO, 95, who ruled New York politics as the last boss of Tammany Hall; in New York City. He rose through the ranks as a messenger boy for political captains and ensured that the most politically deserving, needy families received their holiday food baskets. As head of the New York organization in the 1950s, he handpicked Robert F. Wagner Jr. as mayor and W. Averell Harriman as Governor and, some said, could have named the Democratic presidential nominee. But by the late 1960s he had been denounced as authoritarian, convicted of petty bribery and defeated in local...