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...planting trees) says that it is comparing its underwriting and investment portfolios, hoping to maximize profits from both sectors and minimize the company's overall risk. Is there enough momentum to sustain this change in approach? Perhaps. Before last week, any climate-change action was likely to have been driven by a few innovative companies. Since the publication of the Stern report, however, the insurance industry along with the rest of the business community understand that the British government has gotten very serious about the issue, and they expect knock-on effects will expand to Europe. As for the hugely...
...executive powers will only be made early next year. "The decision will be whether to stick with the plan of disbanding the ohr, or to rethink," said Schwarz-Schilling. The prospect of a weaker international presence is disturbing to many. Emsuda Mujagic, 54, is a Muslim woman who was driven from her home near Prijedor in the Serb Republic in 1992. Her village was torched and 48 family members, she says, were murdered in camps. She was able to escape and returned a few years ago, thanks mainly to the presence of foreign troops and the international community...
...faith. In 2004, ABC was fourth in the ratings. One series in its pipeline was based on an idea by then chairman Lloyd Braun: a fictionalized Survivor. ABC turned over the project to producer J.J. Abrams and his partner Lindelof, who elaborated the concept into a wild, character-driven mystery. The wisdom in TV then was that viewers were too busy to follow continuing story lines. Simple procedurals like CSI reigned. "We would have loved to have had a CSI," says Stephen McPherson, then head of Touchstone Television and now ABC Entertainment president. "But given our choices, it made...
...grenade, but not the reason I had put myself in range of it. My rationale for going to Iraq as a career milestone no longer struck me as truthful. I already had scrapbooks full of big stories and enough money in the bank. I realized that something else had driven me, an old problem of self-worth: I was good because of what I did, not because of who I was. I had important roles as father, brother, lover and son. But without achieving in some material way, I felt empty and unseen. Journalism had provided a regular opportunity...
...Administration's neoconservative camp, the former ambassador to Indonesia was one of the chief architects of the White House's ambitious and controversial plan to reshape the Middle East. When Wolfowitz took over as the president of the World Bank last year, he told TIME he would be "results driven...