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...know what I did. And I know that the motivations for the decisions I made were not based on improper reasons.' ALBERTO GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, seeking to explain his role in the Justice Department's controversial firing of eight U.S. Attorneys
...This may explain the varying degrees of success Asian companies have had with programs aimed at fathers. In Japan, cosmetics firm Shiseido introduced an enlightened scheme in April 2005 whereby employees with children under 3 are offered a one-time benefit of an additional two weeks of paid leave. Since the scheme's adoption, says spokesman Tatsuyoshi Endo, only 28 men have taken advantage of the offer. (At Shiseido's Tokyo head office 1,780 of the 3,300 employees are men, but the firm doesn't keep a tally of how many are fathers). Other companies are offering similarly...
...Cubism (Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp served as camoufleurs) were a huge influence, as were the visual disruptions of Vorticism in the Dazzle patterns applied to Allied ships during World War I. Dazzle made it hard for the enemy to get a fix - a trait that could also help explain the rebellious appeal of camouflage patterns since the 1980s for fashion designers like Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and pop idols from the Clash to Madonna. Whatever the angle, "Camouflage" is a must-see. www.iwm.org.uk
...drugs is fairly libertarian. If prescription medications help teens kill themselves less often or not be as violent, I don't think they're a bad thing. In many cases, I know psychiatric meds are prescribed unnecessarily. But I don't think all the drugs in the world can explain the vast improvements we've seen in psychosocial metrics for teens since the 1980s. I'm not exactly sure why teen life is getting better, but I actually think teens are more empowered than ever-through social-networking websites, through the cheap availability of cell phones, and through their busier...
...strategist, first of all. There are certain sections of French society our message wasn't getting to - immigrants or minorities, civil service workers, women, the suburbs. And we had to explain our program to them better. And we had to present ourselves better as a party capable and ready to govern when the call comes...