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Before The Wall Street Journal's relaunch last week - the new version is dramatically narrower and creates several new departments - the paper's publisher, L. Gordon Crovitz, cleverly deflected any anticipated criticism, telling Editor & Publisher that he's "girded for the letters of complaints written with quills on parchment." In other words, if you don't like it, you just...
...property and began renovations in 2001, looking at the building as a possible life sciences center, Larsen said. A number of parties expressed interest in the building, including Target Corp. and the now-bankrupt Globix Corp., but the property has been unoccupied since 2001, Larsen said. The Boston Business Journal reported that a possible $22 million sale of the property to Massachusetts-based Eastern Development LLC fell through earlier this summer, leading the company to contact Harvard. “We tried looking at a variety of strategic transactions and it emerged that Harvard was indeed the best buyer...
Candidates for any job should always be considered as individuals, and to deny that a person’s sex is a central part of who he or she is would be blatantly false. A 2005 study in the journal Social Behavior & Personality found “a gender bias in hiring and firing decisions…at the final-choice stage.” In today’s gender-conscious world, intentionally or not, an applicant’s gender will be a factor in the hiring process. Why not admit this—and admit that...
...unity - reconciling with the Sunnis, making concessions to the insurgents to draw former Baathists back into the fold, and most importantly, reining in the Shi'ite death squads. Nor is this problem a unique failing of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki - who, in an interview in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday made clear that he no longer wants the job. The U.S. had no greater joy with his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Jaafari...
...Securities and Exchange Commission is currently investigating the backdating procedures of more than 130 companies, according to the Journal, in the largest corporate-fraud probe in decades...