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...leadership today—up from 65 percent in 2005. The survey of more than 1,000 Americans, conducted jointly by the Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership and U.S. News & World Report, suggests Americans were especially critical of the media, the executive branch, and Congress. Of the 12 sectors respondents rated, those three received the lowest marks. Even the institutions that fared best—the military and medicine—received barely passing grades, with respondents expressing only “moderate” confidence. David R. Gergen, the Center for Public Leadership?...
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...become one of the world's most advanced banks, using the Internet and mobile phones to conduct most of its business. Some 1.2 million of its customers use the Web to bank, a world record, while only 6% of the institution's transactions are processed through a traditional branch. What's more, Merita has taken the lead in allowing customers to bank via mobile phones. Not bad for a bank with just $173 billion in assets, only Europe's 25th largest...
...Harald, a Merita executive vice president, estimates that an Internet transaction costs the bank only 11[cents], a tenth the cost of a local branch transaction. And every month customers make 4.1 million bill payments over the Internet. The migration to the Net also allowed Merita to close two-thirds of its 800 branches, resulting in huge savings...
...another victim dead on Sunday, shot at a highway rest stop, and dozens of police and team supporters injured in subsequent rioting. Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year-old fan of the Rome-based team Lazio, was shot through the neck Sunday by a highway police officer at a Tuscan branch of the Autogrill restaurant chain after a brawl erupted between their fans and the Juventus supporters who'd crossed paths on their way to their respective teams' road games in different cities. The bad news about the shocking incident is that no one is truly shocked...