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...executives are being supported by their companies in their decision to come out. Says Daryl Herrschaft, who is in charge of workplace issues at the Human Rights Campaign: "What we've been seeing is a very real acknowledgment from businesses that allowing diversity in all of its forms to flourish ... is the right thing to do, not because it feels good but because it's going to make them money." But, cautions Herrschaft, that reaction is far from universal. "We have a lot of anecdotal evidence that it is still not safe for gay or lesbian executives to be open...
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's new style of Japanese politics had readers wondering if his approach was more surface than substance, and if his attempts at reform have taken root and can flourish...
...play. In response, players such as Portugal's young sensation Cristiano Ronaldo have learned to dive and writhe on the ground the instant an opponent is within spitting range. Throw in trash talk, some of it outright racist in a Europe where African and Brazilian players flourish, and you can see why a player like Zidane might erupt...
...eliminated through terrific intelligence work and air power, neither of which required a substantial U.S. ground presence in Iraq. The President's line of attack was accurate but lethally incomplete. His poorly planned invasion of Iraq created the atmosphere that enabled al-Qaeda-and the local sectarian conflicts-to flourish. Iraq had become, in small part, a war against al-Qaeda; for the most part, it is a local sectarian conflict-because of American incompetence. If the President had not allowed General Tommy Franks to "cut and run"-that is, to close his headquarters and begin drawing down...
...outbreak, anyone determined and patient enough could successfully petition the authorities for permission to visit the real thing. The only precaution was a requirement that visitors walk through a trough of formaldehyde solution--the regimen that Pallot-Frossard of the LRMH suggests may have inadvertently enabled the fusarium to flourish...