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...administration will be junked, and unfair-dismissal laws will be made more sensible. The economic argument is that reform will reduce the cost of labor and help the nation become more productive. Jobs will be created and incomes will rise as business and the country prosper. Howard's ideological grace note here is about individualism, freedom and choice. For the culminating effort of a veteran industrial warrior, the proposals appear moderate - indeed, for free-market purists and employer groups they are a disappointment...
...cheek.He (in white, shoulders shrugged and feet kicking) responded with appropriate late-’90s finesse to the ska-laced beat of “Frenchy, I’m Faking.” With big band grandeur, two trombones from the band crossed slides, hurling more syncopated grace at the dancer. With sudden fear, his feet were not his own but those of another, less laden with curiosity and daring. A missed beat turned into a shuffle, a pause, and then a failed pitch at recovery.No one could fault the loser. A dance duel created through Architecture...
Ricky Gervais’s “The Office” is one of the funniest and most brilliant programs ever to grace a television screen. And, as with the British series “Coupling,” NBC swung and missed with the American version. With all due respect to Steve Carell, who is very funny in almost everything he does, the U.S. “Office” just isn’t very funny. The whole experience is like watching a version of “Da Ali G Show” starring James Rebhorn...
...country from the postwar ashes and building the world's second biggest economy?and they're not done yet, as May Ushiyama shows. The bright-eyed, thoroughly perfumed 94-year-old?who spent several years after the war working in Hollywood, and has the black and white photos with Grace Kelly and Debbie Reynolds to prove it?grew her beauty salon from a small family company to an upscale operation that now occupies several floors in Tokyo's tony Roppongi Hills. She has no intention of retiring. "If you live long, with intensity, you see all kinds of interesting things...
...influential study of long-term vehicle dependability, which measures problems encountered by owners of three-year-old cars, Mercedes scored far below the industry average in the 2005 survey; Mercedes owners reported more than twice as many problems per 100 cars as top-ranked Lexus. "Mercedes' fall from grace has been especially severe," says Chance Parker, J.D. Power's executive director of product and research analysis...