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...Pentagon analysis of the shooting rampage that left 13 people dead at the Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, in November concluded that the military was ill equipped to identify threats within its ranks. The report recommended that several officers be investigated for lax supervision of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of the murders, who was allowed to serve despite unease about his behavior...
...trauma, and after more damaged players came forward, Congress stepped in. At one hearing, Representative Linda Sanchez, a Democrat from California, compared the NFL's stance on concussions to tobacco companies' denial that smoking causes lung cancer. Others have taken up the players' cause, like Gay Culverhouse, the terminally ill former president of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who has established an outreach program for those needing assistance. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...
...science, 12th in reading. It will be impossible to rebuild our economy - to create the sophisticated, high-paying jobs we need - as long as we have an archaic, industrial-age school system. It's also hard to keep a strong democracy with a citizenry that is increasingly uneducated and ill informed. No, teachers' unions are not the only problem here. Troglodytic local school boards and apathetic parents are just as bad. But the unions, and their minions in the Democratic Party, have been a reactionary force in education reform for too long. Barack Obama began to change that last year...
...four top banks all cited recently instituted clawback provisions as evidence the firms had reformed the pay practices that many believe were at the root of the financial crisis. Clawback provisions are at the heart of that effort. While companies have always had the right to sue employees for ill-gotten gains, more firms are adding provisions to reclaim pay not just for illegal behavior, but poor decisions. And they are expanding those provisions to more employees. A few months ago, Morgan Stanley extended its clawbacks to trades that end up being losers. Bank of America is planning to extend...
...Highland Park, Ill., and Lowell House