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...gets it: he knows this is as much his war as it is ours." Zardari can't ignore the now routine terrorist strikes within Pakistan; suicide bombers have attacked major cities, killing hundreds. Besides, since Bhutto's death, Zardari is at the top of al-Qaeda's hit list. Because of a sense of self-preservation, or a commitment to responsible leadership, he has promised to crack down on terrorist groups...
...fact, the austerity scolds have found surprisingly few specific outrages. Republicans released a list that mocked $75 million for "smoking-cessation activities," which are actually a terrific way to hold down the long-term health costs that threaten the Treasury's long-term solvency, as well as $6 billion "to turn federal buildings into 'green' buildings," with the telling scare quotes deriding the idea of creating short-term jobs for retrofitters while reducing long-term federal energy costs and emissions. There has been a sensible push to add even more money for mass transit, which reduces energy use, increases...
...nation's first African-American Attorney General, Holder, 58, brings a unique perspective to the job. In the 1970s, New Jersey police pulled over his Plymouth Duster to search for weapons. The car contained nothing more than Holder, then a dean's-list undergraduate at Columbia University, and a group of black friends. It impressed on Holder the dangers of using the law as a blunt instrument, a lesson he applied years later in overseeing a racial-profiling settlement with the New Jersey state police. After Columbia Law School, he passed up high-paying jobs for a chance to prosecute...
Still, things are not entirely gloomy. FORTUNE just released its annual list of best companies to work for: No. 1 is NetApp, which gives workers five paid days of volunteer work, adoption aid, autism coverage--and has gained market share, avoided layoffs and banked $2 billion in cash for these rainy days. Wegmans supermarkets (No. 5) offer workers free yoga classes; biotech leader Genentech (No. 7) features paid sabbaticals, on-site child care and a fitness center; its revenues jumped 25% last quarter. Hewlett suggests even struggling companies that have moved to a four-day workweek rather than fire people...
...martini, the newest James Bond still maintains an heroic persona in his latest film, “Defiance.” While the movie’s Holocaust setting might arouse the expectation of another horrifying display of Nazi actions (as in “Schindler’s List), director Edward Zwick ’74 (“The Last Samurai,” “Blood Diamond”) surprises the audience by examining the Holocaust from an original angle. In a story of survival, Daniel Craig (“Casino Royale”), as Tuvia...