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...Among their many challenges is the one symbolized by the members of the public who were at the event - or, rather, who were outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Scores of members of the group Wake Up Wal-Mart were protesting the meeting, accusing the company of being part of the country's health care problem, rather than the solution...
...Representatives of big business at the gathering included executives from General Mills, Qwest and, most notably Wal-Mart, which has become for some a symbol of the failure of American corporations to provide robust and affordable insurance to its employees. Major companies in the United States employ many of the nation's more than 40 million uninsured. There for big labor was Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union, a long-time champion of health care reform who has been criticized by some on the left for working in coalition with Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott...
...into Europe's second largest retailer in little more than a decade. Today H&M has 1,400 stores in 28 countries, including 114 in the U.S.; there it is still a small player, but its $687 million in sales last year has retailers such as Banana Republic, Wal-Mart and Abercrombie & Fitch all launching fast-fashion initiatives...
...biggest games, though, are still AIDS fundraisers. Once a month, people pack the 800-seat Durham Armory in North Carolina for family-friendly, alcohol-free drag bingo nights led by BVD (bingo-verifying diva) Mary K. Mart. The crowd is about half gay and half straight, and on a typical night, $10,000 is raised for the Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina. In 2002, when the Alliance ran its first game, "we thought that if we got a hundred people and a thousand dollars, it would be a miracle," says John Paul Womble, director of development. The event sold...
That would have surprised the Jamestown settlers, who faced an array of challenges, all of them together crushing. It was a project of the London Co., a group of merchants with a royal patent: Imagine that Congress gave Wal-Mart and General Electric permission to colonize Mars. But of necessity, the day-to-day decisions were made in Jamestown, and its leaders were always fighting. Leaders who were incompetent or unpopular--sometimes the most competent were the least popular--were deposed on the spot. The typical 17th century account of Jamestown argues that everything would have gone well if everyone...