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...very lucrative place in sweeps history, "Survivor" chose a bad time to slip its loyalists the stinky fish. The show has just come upon its structural Achilles' heel: the post-merge voting. As soon as the balance shifts between the members of the just-dissolved tribes, the show goes on a dreary autopilot while the majority methodically votes out the minority...
...opinion, the only thing that can stop Duke over the next three weeks is injuries. Judging by recent events, it's quite possible that this will end up being Achilles' heel of the Blue Devils. They have not only lost starting center Carlos Boozer to a broken foot, but have also been without Williams' services after he sprained his ankle against North Carolina in Sunday's ACC Championship game...
Talk to a resident living downwind of a North Carolina hog factory and you're likely to hear tales of odors that can peel paint. In the Tar Heel state, the swine industry famously generates mountains of waste - some 19 million tons a year - and critics have long charged that the industry pollutes the air and water illegally. This week the country's biggest hog processor and producer, Smithfield Foods, is expected to be the target of a blitz of lawsuits filed by environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a posse of class-action lawyers who are mounting an assault...
More often, employer threats to call in the INS have a chilling effect on organizing. The Smithfield Packing Co. in Tar Heel, N.C., the world's largest pork-processing plant, fought off a 1997 union drive by firing labor activists and calling in sheriff's deputies to patrol the parking lot on election day--an intimidating sight to undocumented employees. Last month, in a case brought by the union to the National Labor Relations Board, a judge found that Smithfield managers had committed "egregious and pervasive" labor-law violations by claiming that the union would turn employees...
...Ghosn is a globalist--Lebanese heritage, French education, Brazilian passport--who earned his spurs as an aggressive turnaround artist at Michelin, the tire company, and then Renault. To bring Nissan to heel, the 46-year-old used psychological leverage that nobody had ever bothered to exploit in Japan. "People within the company were convinced that Nissan was sick and could die," he says. "They knew it had to change, and they were willing to help...