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...Longman's answer is reminiscent of the pre-9/11 business-strategy tomes that explain success in terms of combat and athletic metaphors. "These were people at the top of their game," he writes, "who kept score in their lives and who became successful precisely because they were assertive." They were company presidents, managers, writers. They played sports - baseball, football, rugby, judo - and drew life lessons from them. They believed in the moral value of work. They expected the best of themselves and others (one passenger once went out to lunch and sent his cheeseburger back eight times...
President Bush doesn't think corporate America needs a pile of new regulations. Someone just needs to tell business leaders to cut out the shenanigans. Bush did exactly that last week with some tough words. But his words were far more ambiguous when he had to explain alleged shenanigans of his own. Dick Cheney offered no answers to similar questions. That undercut Bush's moral authority, and the stock market just kept dropping. --By Mitch Frank...
...fight. The battle is oddly, alarmingly, public. The battlefield--not southern Iraq this time but the front pages of various newspapers--is strewn with bickering Bush aides and unnamed generals. Amid all the leaking and counterleaking, Bush's own comments about his aims keep shifting--which may explain why those of everyone around...
...Bush last week called for doubling the maximum prison term for mail and wire fraud to 10 years. But the problem isn't the length of the sentence handed down for corporate malfeasance; it's winning a criminal conviction in the first place. Financial misdeeds are often difficult to explain to juries, and proving intent is even harder. More money for investigators would help, but the new $100 million that Bush pledged for the Securities and Exchange Commission is not nearly enough for the underfunded agency...
...from ancient barbarisms that refuse to die, sacrifice and sorcery are making a comeback. Sociologists explain the millions who now throng the two main Kali centers in eastern India, at Kamakhya and Tarapith, as what happens when the rat race that is India's future meets the superstitions of its past. Sociologist Ashis Nandy says: "You see your neighbor doing well, above his caste and position, and someone tells you to get a child and do a secret ritual and you can catch up." Adds mysticism expert Ipsita Roy Chakaraverti: "It's got nothing to do with real mysticism...