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'Tis the season to be shopping for best-selling books. Thanks to an almost comical price war that has broken out among a few of the country's retail giants, more people may be reading over the holidays. On Oct. 15, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, announced it was...
The consumer uproar has been eye-opening for SIGG CEO Steve Wasik. He thought going green just meant being good to the earth; he didn't realize it meant fessing up too. "Being a green company also means being held to the highest degree of corporate transparency," he wrote in...
In a move that clarified why administrators have tamed fiscal messages of late after months of stressing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ impending financial deficit, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith delivered the news Friday that the school had posted a $58.6 million surplus in its unrestricted funds...
Of course, not everyone is charmed. A honking car slows near our table, and when the window rolls down, a teenager shouts, "F___ you!" For just a moment, the former governor looks sheepish. "I thought that was [going to be] a positive one." (See TIME's photo-essay "The Remarkable...
The ease with which Blagojevich climbed the political ladder - and his upbringing in the back-scratching, wheel-greasing vortex of Chicago politics, where more than 1,500 people have been convicted of public corruption since 1970 - may explain why Blagojevich somehow considers dangling a U.S. Senate seat "routine." Even today...