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...severe; as Malcolm Gladwell relates in Outliers, Korean Airlines had a terrible safety record in the early 1990s because co-pilots would not correct their pilots. Korea also loses a lot of potentially excellent, young leaders because of this cultural issue. They feel under-qualified not by their lack of clear reasoning but by their lack of gray hair. On the flip side, older leaders become complacent in their positions not because of their abilities, but because of their age. This doesn’t mean that all 20-somethings possess clear reasoning or that elder Korean leaders lack abilities...
Rove, Karl • claims of lack of involvement in firings of federal prosecutors turn out to be, according to newly obtained emails ... well, let's call them "misleading" for now and wait for Justice Department attorneys to weigh...
Lisa Abend does not mention the weak management of the recession by a government that stubbornly sticks to blaming past times and does not really try to introduce the economic reforms that may ease the problems of unemployment and the lack of affordable property. Spain had bad unemployment in the 1970s but right now it looks even worse after the bursting of the construction bubble - and there is no turnaround in sight. Mariano Ferrando, ZARAGOZA, SPAIN...
...using their positions to enrich themselves and their families. "We have seen this country degenerate from a promising state to a dysfunctional one. We have seen unmitigated corruption and insensitivity on the part of its rulers," says Mohammed Ndume, a federal MP from Borno state. "We are seeing a lack of opportunities and so much stress for its people. So what do you expect? The people have to react, and that is what you are seeing and that is what the current crisis is all about...
...Committee chairman Howard Berman announced that if Iran doesn't engage in talks, he would move ahead "in the early fall" with a widely supported bill that would ban U.S. commercial ties with any company that sells refined petroleum products to Iran. Despite Iran's massive oil reserves, its lack of refining capacity forces the nation to import almost half the gasoline it consumes. Berman introduced the bill at Ross's urging last spring. (See pictures of Ahmadinejad's supporters on LIFE.com...