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...late 19th century. Last February, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized to his country's Aborigines for racist laws of the past, including the forced separation of children from their parents. Five months later, the U.S. Congress formally apologized to black Americans for slavery and the later Jim Crow laws, which were not repealed until the 1960s. And most notably, in 1988 the U.S. government decided to pay $20,000 to each of the surviving 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps during World War II. Says Donald Tamaki, a San Francisco-based attorney who helped overturn wrongful WWII...
...while ad pages are plummeting for all magazines, they're flirting with terminal velocity for business titles. The numbers are enough to make a CEO pack it all in (which Jim Spanfeller at Forbes.com just did). In the first half of this year, Business Week ran about 37% fewer ad pages than it did in the first half of last year, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. Fortune, published by Time Inc. (owner of TIME.com), sold 38% fewer pages, and Forbes was down 30% (a number possibly skewed by the inclusion of ForbesLife). But as a weekly, the McGraw-Hill...
...Believe me, he knew. He kind of looked like a clown when I was talking to him.' JIM INHOFE, an Oklahoma Republican, saying he meant no offense when he called a fellow Senator, Minnesota's Al Franken, a "clown...
...Times so anti-American? Jim Main, ORLANDO...
...developing fields. Primary care has never really been a major emphasis, although I think on a global basis, Harvard has put a major emphasis on reaching out to the rest of the world," said Martin P. Solomon, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Brigham. "People like Jim Kim and Paul Farmer are all very important and have had an enormous impact on primary care worldwide, but in our own backyard, Harvard has had very little impact. [Primary care] is not as glamorous, but it's the grease that keeps the system going...