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...like it may become a staple of public discourse. Dyke warmed to his role as the popular boss victimized by Hutton, complaining that the government had gotten to pick its own referee and that the report was legally peculiar. He promised a detailed rebuttal. Campbell is now a private citizen - he left Downing Street last fall as he realized his high-profile campaign to slam the BBC over Gilligan had drained his effectiveness. Last week he could not stay off the airwaves or resist trumpeting his sense of vindication. Any more turmoil or high-profile errors from BBC News - which...
...Willie and Joe were citizen soldiers. Before their incarnation, they had presumably been peaceful citizens. Now THEY WERE VETERANS OF WAR'S HARDSHIPS, ITS FILTH, DISCOMFORTS AND AGONIZING BOREDOM. War was bad weather and soaking clothes, cold rations and no letters from home. War was mile after mile of tramping, getting just as tired advancing as retreating, sleeping in barns, bathing in icy rivers, scrounging for small comforts ... War was watching their friends die, one after the other, day after day after day. War was learning the ecstasy of wiggling a little finger just to see it move and know...
...company, has begun taking to its subsidiaries around the globe, from Angola to Belgium, with a stop in the U.S. this year. The mission is to drive home to managers everywhere that Total has a goal besides making money: it wants to become a better corporate citizen. That means being more responsible and responsive in the way it deals with the environment, with its employees, customers and vendors--and with the governments and peoples of the countries in which it operates, including more than 40 in Africa. Bribery and leaky old tankers are out. Codes of conduct and wind energy...
...moot question. The pharmaceutical companies and their well-heeled lobbyists have found pockets to fill and palms to cross for too long. Our elected officials will not make any changes in the way mega-industrial conglomerates stick it to the average American citizen day after day. Shar Porier Homer...
...used to be that America welcomed the vast crowds who arrived at Ellis Island, given that they didn’t carry any contagious diseases. Today, the process to become an American citizen is so filled by bureaucratic red tape that unless you have an American immediate relative or fiancé, are employed by an American company or are fleeing civil strife from your home country, you have little hope of joining this so-called land of immigrants...