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...admit that single fatherhood has not helped his career as a political economist. "We're torn between working hard to become Secretary of State and nurturing our kids," he says. "You make the choice to nurture your kids, and people think it's great. But does it put a crimp on your career? Yes, very definitely. When I finish this process, I will have spent 15 years on a professional plateau." Ingram finds that his colleagues accept his dual commitments, his leaving every night before 6, or by 5 if he has a soccer practice to coach. In fact they...
...keeps reminding us, a political solution is necessary: a military victory is not possible. So let's try to put the good and bad news together. It's not impossible that the Iraqis will eventually remove the al-Qaeda cancer from the Sunni insurgency-which would put a serious crimp in President George W. Bush's current rationale for the war, that we're there to fight al-Qaeda. But it's also probable that without a political deal, the sectarian conflict between the Sunnis and Shi'ites will intensify-and eventually explode when the U.S. military pulls back from...
...early May 2005, and alarm bells in Washington's media echo chamber were ringing. A leaked Pentagon report had warned that the strain of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars could crimp the Defense Department's ability to respond quickly to other conflicts, and pundits were fretting that China and North Korea could exploit the vulnerability. But flying through Asia in his Air Force Boeing 737, Admiral William Fallon, the man who had taken over the U.S. Pacific Command just two months earlier, wasn't ruffled. His command - with 300,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines - still outclassed the force Beijing...
...whether the dollar will continue its decline over the next several months, or whether the recent fall is a temporary blip. A sustained, larger drop would make U.S. exports more competitive and help reduce America's yawning trade deficit - but it would also stir up inflation, as well as crimp the profits of European firms and hurt economic growth there. It also risks bringing heightened volatility to world financial markets. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, for one, thinks that's a bad idea. "A strong dollar is clearly in our nation's best interest," he said last week...
This isn't to say that ethics-driven investing has to crimp your bottom line. Consider Winslow Green Growth, a small-cap fund that, as its name implies, specializes in globally eco-friendly companies. Winslow has returned an average 16.39% over the past five years, according to Morningstar, beating both the average SRI fund and market benchmarks like the Russell 2000 growth index and the S&P 500. Winslow president Jack Robinson is also earning a reputation as a savvy stock picker, green or otherwise. In its annual survey of equity funds, Barron's/Value Line ranked him the top manager...