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...this otherwise dead period to fill some idiot reporter's head with stuff. The joke's on them, though, because on a corporate jet, the subject is trapped. He can hardly say, "Well, I'd like to talk to you a little longer but I've got a meeting across town." Not without a ripcord. (See the Top 10 Golden Parachutes...
...There is awareness that you can no longer expect that students will come in with a basic grounding in Latin or Greek or both,” said Koven-Matasy, who is also the president of the Classical Club...
...allow them to live with impunity,” he said. Although Lewis addressed many aspects of the struggle against AIDS, he said, “The single most important struggle on the planet is the struggle for gender equality.” “Rape is no longer a weapon of war,” he said. “It is a strategy of war...In my own view there is nothing more grotesque happening in this world at this moment.” After describing atrocities that are being committed in countries like Liberia and South...
...Americans think global health is important and that the U.S. doesn’t spend enough,” he said. Frenk, formerly Mexico’s minister of health, began his remarks by noting that Congress participation is integral in this arena. “Health is no longer the domain of the medical experts,” he said. “We live in an interrelated world. We know today that investing in health is the best way to create prosperity and security for everyone.” All three panelists noted the economic benefits that come...
...turmoil out of Iraq may no longer be bloody and fatal, but politics can result in casualties too. Indeed, the recent successes of Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, may have made him a target for the country's increasingly voluble politicians. In his apparent overwhelming confidence in his power, Maliki has recently picked fights with his Kurdish allies, his Shi'ite opponents and his Sunni partners over a variety of issues. Now Iraq's President, Jalal Talabani, who is a Kurd, wants to haul the Prime Minister into federal court, an unprecedented and blistering public slap...