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...Francisco The decoy sign outside speakeasy-themed Bourbon & Branch advertises the ANTI-LEAGUE SALOON, the prohibitionist group founded 113 years before the bar opened. Reservations for tables (and the daily password to whisper into the tiny loudspeaker) are available to all via the bar's website bourbonandbranch.com but remain hard to come by for much of the week. To meet demand, the venue expanded into a third room for standing patrons, accessed via another secret door behind a bookshelf. Despite the excitement in the bar, no loud celebrating is permitted in the seated section, with those patrons...
...incidents seems to belie another essential problem with the strike and its ambitions: the vagary and breadth of the problems it was attempting to confront. The virulent brand of racism that incites someone to threaten or dehumanize another is an endemic societal disaster; Columbia’s plan to branch out into a sensitive neighborhood is a limited point of contention for community discussion. Furthermore, the proposed alterations to university policy would rectify neither of these problems entirely. This puzzling disconnect between the strike’s causes and effects further undermined it. It may have been these issues...
...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?...
...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...