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...Rises Again End of story? Not quite. Turns out, Stockman may have time for that prison course in remedial economics after all. He was indicted a short time ago for securities fraud at an auto-parts manufacturer that he controlled. According to prosecutors, Stockman lied to banks about the firm's financial condition, inducing them to loan the company money it couldn't repay. He engaged in "round trip" transactions that involved masking loans - which were supposed to be repaid - as income. He exaggerated the manufacturer's prospects, knowing his claims were untrue, which led people to buy company securities...
...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...
Senni, incensed by the discrimination he says he faced daily at home, first went to Sweden and now lives in London, where he has set up his own consulting firm. It advises companies - including some French multinationals - on how to deal with ethnic diversity in their workforce. "Going abroad was like an exorcism," he says bluntly. Jozan spent five years working in Germany after college before moving back to France - only to get a big shock; the place seemed cliquey, introspective and stuck in a rut. So he quickly left again, taking a career break to do an M.B.A...
...older women over, Dove puts a positive spin on the unhappy moment when a woman buys her first jar of antiwrinkle cream. "The concept is linguistically brilliant," says Cheryl Swanson, a managing partner at Toniq, a brand-strategy firm in New York City. "Skin care has typically been about fighting back--age defying. It's been almost warrior-like. Take a stance against this natural thing that's happening to you. This is different." The strategy tells women, implicitly, that they can look better without trying too hard...
...spokesman from Standing Stone said the firm will complete its inspection of the majority of CPS facilities by the end of the school year...