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...team in January after a locker-room videotape showed him executing a dunk in Iverson's pants pockets for spare cash. (Iverson was not in the pants at the time.) Video cameras had been installed after players complained of missing cash. "I felt sick, physically sick," said the elder Croce upon viewing the tape; he told his brother to resign or be fired. John Croce did resign, citing pursuit of a new job, and a forgiving Iverson didn't press charges. Neither did the Sixers organization, though Pat Croce says he hasn't spoken to his brother since January. Iverson...
...ELDER-CARE STRESSES According to research reported in the Academy of Management Journal, caring for elderly dependents is more of a strain for working families than child care. More than 14 million U.S. workers care for aging family members. They report higher levels of stress and lower work performance than workers whose dependents are children, and 25% miss at least one day of work a month to deal with care crises...
...height of American media recklessness came with the reporting on newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. For the most part, the American press lionized this “elder statesman” and behaved as though the Palestinians had nothing to be upset about...
...remarkable, then, that someone could emerge from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks to become the most powerful politician in Japan. How the 75-year-old Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elder finessed a heritage that could have been a liability offers insight into what motivates him and how he operates. From his first campaign for a seat on the town council of Sonobe, a rural town west of Kyoto, Nonaka did not deny his burakumin ties. He didn't advertise them, either. Instead, he adroitly brought himself out of the closet, in a pair of speeches early...
CHINA. Beijing has been adopting soft-line tactics toward Washington and seems shocked to discover that this Bush is no comfy replica of the elder one. George W. has plenty of advisers who see China as the looming enemy, a military rival bent on asserting its dominance over the Pacific. Bush is sounding a hard note on human rights and has resolved to go ahead with a Pacific missile shield that Beijing opposes. But at the same time he is being tugged hard in the opposite direction by trade-minded business interests that want to preserve engagement and cooperation...