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...everyone else got theirs. In the 1970s, the House and Senate agriculture committees cleverly tacked food stamps onto farm bills to solidify the support of urban legislators. But when Republicans seized Congress in 1994, promising a revolutionary age of fiscal conservatism and free-market capitalism, they vowed to gut command-and-coddle farm policies that they compared to Soviet communism. They wanted the government to treat agriculture like any other business, and they said they'd offer farmers a deal: no more supply controls, so farmers could plant what they wanted, but no more subsidies, so they would have...
This kind of central command and control, long out of favor in corporate America (not to mention the People's Republic of China), is now being de-emphasized. Castro-Wright, 52, is pushing executives out to where the stores are and bringing in local hires. The company has created five U.S. regions and staffed them as if they were independent $8 billion-to-$12 billion retailers. The Southeast regional headquarters is in Atlanta; the Midwest is run out of Chicago. Both regions are headed by locals, which will give the company more political clout in the sometimes contentious battles...
...Nixon, who described in his memoirs Zhou's "brilliance and dynamism." Zhou was everything Mao was not: cultured where Mao was crude, consistent where Mao was mercurial and stoic where Mao was given to flights of paranoia. How, then, did Mao come to so utterly dominate his second in command...
...trigger for such a decision could be a Supreme Court finding against Musharraf in legal action brought two weeks ago against his right to run for president while remaining in command of the military. The court is expected to rule within days on those cases, and also on actions challenging the legitimacy of the amnesty Musharraf offered to Benazir Bhutto on corruption charges, in order to smooth his way to a power-sharing deal with popular former prime minister, whose return to Pakistan from exile last week was greeted by a massive terror attack. And the court appears...
...news—but rather the fact that the TDC bros were able to get such a large number of undergraduate email addresses. Alberto Mena, President and co-Rush Chair of the MIT TDC chapter, refused to comment on their questionable advertising tactics. “With a simple command on fas.harvard.edu you can list the username of everyone with an account on fas.harvard.edu,” David J. Malan ’99, a computer science lecturer, writes in an email. “In theory, someone at MIT could simply ask someone at Harvard to execute that sort...