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...boiled down to one sentiment: a family business is the family's business. For decades top jobs at such companies have been passed down from fathers to sons and daughters, not to professional managers outside the clan. Profits have been used to shore up a sister (or cousin) company instead of going to shareholders. But if you talk to the patriarchs and scions of the families that own Asia, they will tell you that it is no longer business as usual. They have increasingly come under fire for inefficient, outmoded and nepotistic practices. One of the results...
Consistency is one of those qualities that act like a virtue without necessarily being one. While we would like our Presidents to be consistently wise, it is the wisdom we are really after. But consistency and its cousin certainty still hold a sacred place in our politics. The charge that a candidate has flip-flopped on some position is not a political attack so much as a personal one. It is less about the issues being debated than about the instincts being revealed, about honor and honesty and nerve under fire. How tight the label sticks depends...
...taught me so much about playing through pain and just playing for the love of the game. My little brother Timmy is one of the best athletes I know and perhaps the biggest Harvard Hockey fan out there. My Uncle Jack comes to every game he can, and my cousin Brendon sometimes misses his own games to see me play...
CHARGED. SUSAN LINDAUER, 41, former Washington journalist and congressional aide; with conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Iraqi intelligence service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions with the Iraqi government; in New York City. Lindauer, a cousin of White House chief of staff Andrew Card, denied the charges, telling reporters "I'm an antiwar activist, and I'm innocent...
...that her baby had been taken before the blaze, and then she came back with fresh evidence that the girl she named Delimar Vera was alive. The 6year-old was found across the Delaware River in Willingboro, N.J., 15 miles from Cuevas' Philadelphia home. Carolyn Correa, 42, a distant cousin of Cuevas' then boyfriend, Pedro Vera, was charged with kidnapping the child and setting a fire to cover her tracks...