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...that people work badly if they are terrorized and half starved. Toward the end of the Gulag, Applebaum writes, "It was becoming clear to the Soviet authorities that the camps were wasteful, corrupt, and above all, unprofitable." Unlike Germany, Russia has not confronted its totalitarian past. It tries to forget it - or, in the case of the present political leadership, selectively justify it, as if 10 million deaths can be balanced out by achievements in other fields. It may be for this reason that the legal and prison systems here are still a nightmare, and that prosecutors are still regularly...
...their recent successes, Western Union execs seldom forget the firm's Telex debacle, and some remember a much earlier--and bigger--mistake. In 1876 Western Union had the option to buy Alexander Graham Bell's new telephone but dismissed it in an internal memo as a device that "is inherently of no value to us." Bell sold the rights to what is now AT&T. First Data's pending purchase of ATM powerhouse Concord EFS shows that it is determined that Western Union won't get left behind this time. --With reporting by Deborah Edler Brown/Los Angeles, Paul Cuadros/Durham, Cheryl...
...pace" he was used to at his old, understaffed hospital. "I was respectfully told to take it easy," he remembers. "And that was O.K." Shedding old habits is, in fact, one of the main challenges the new German émigrés face. "People need to learn to forget about the way things were done at home," argues Birgit Krone, the head of the Baltic Training Center, which organizes language courses and job-coaching for unemployed Germans who want to apply for jobs in Scandinavia or the Netherlands. "They should be open to the corporate culture in the countries they...
CLINTON: I can certainly forgive him as a person, but I don't think any of us should forget the misuse of the legal system and the subversion of the Constitution that he was part of, because those are lessons we need to learn so we don't let something like that happen again...
...although recent E.U. directives are addressing the problem. But always ask. "If you change jobs," says Roddy Kohn, of pension advisers Kohn Cougar, "it's possible your next employer will operate a transfer club for pension benefits, and will be willing to take your pension." And don't forget health benefits. According to O.E.C.D. projections, by 2030 pension and health benefits could account for more than 25% of GDP in France and Germany, up from just over 17% five years ago. No wonder corporate health benefits are on the rise. In 1993 in the U.K., almost 3.8 million people were...