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A forthcoming book by Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist David K. Shipler, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America (Knopf; $30), reaches similar conclusions. Shipler embarks on a sprawling, impressive tour along the "crucial fault line of America," crafting an absorbing theater piece of characters, from undergraduates at Princeton to...
LONDON: Evidence that just about everyone is jumping on the Tony Blair bandwagon as Thursday's elections near: The Financial Times, long a Conservative Party supporter, has given a reluctant endorsement to the Labour Party candidate. Bashing Prime Minister John Major for his lack of coherent policies toward the European...
More galling is exorbitant CEO pay at companies with laggard stocks. Gil Amelio, the new CEO of struggling Apple Computer, received total compensation valued at $23 million last year while Apple shareholders lost 40% on their investment. Nolan Archibald, CEO of Black & Decker, received total compensation of $6.5 million even...
It's hard to say now with any real assurance, but it may be that this galling half success, the insult of being known but not well known, may have been too much for a prideful man. Last Dec. 7, some time after A Matter of Honor had been sent...
When Reich is worried that his memos are not getting through to the President, it is the First Lady who offers a back channel. "Send them to me," she says. "I'll see that they get to him. Use blank sheets of paper without any letterhead or other identifying characteristics...