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...Over the weekend, Ward updated all of his online profiles. He uploaded a fresh résumé to LinkedIn, the professionals' networking site, and sent out a message to all 200 of his Facebook friends, letting them know he was looking for work. (See TIME's cover story on how Twitter will change the way we live...
...always in Africa, there is another analysis. The contradictions of Kenya - where multiparty democracy competes with feudal tribalism - could be said to be precisely those you would expect in a country racing at breakneck speed towards modernity. Africa is trying to cover in a few decades what took Europe centuries. Chaos and contradiction - Kenyans are just as comfortable with cell-phone banking as they are with bartering - might be an indication of a country on the move. Kenya is changing. Last year's violence hastened the emergence of a highly critical civil-society movement which has become a sobering force...
...really cover everyone? No issue did more to sink the Clinton health-care plan than its imposition of an employer mandate - a requirement that companies provide health insurance to their workers. And there's little evidence it will be any easier to include one this time around. "It will be a job killer, because employers who cannot afford it will reduce payroll and not hire new workers," warns Bruce Josten of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. What business would prefer to see - and what Obama rejected during his presidential campaign - is an individual mandate requiring everyone who doesn...
...know there is debate about this issue. I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality. And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well-educated are far more likely to be prosperous...
...last September, one of AIG’s gambles had all but destroyed the institution—once the 18th largest public company in the world. To prevent an abrupt and potentially catastrophic collapse, AIG was forced to take a $182.5 billion lifeline from the U.S. government to cover losses that its forecasts indicated were never supposed to happen. Quantitative models like Gorton’s—equally likely to emerge on a dusty blackboard as the frenzied trading floor—have come under fire over the past year, which saw a seismic reshaping of the global financial...