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There is a temptation to say that the stimulus package is simply a cruel trick, meant to give people some hope. Members of Congress will be able to take credit for its results two years from now if it works, or they can simply say the economy was too far gone to be saved if it fails. Either way, the issue is not creating 3.5 million jobs. It is creating 8 or 9 million. - Douglas A. McIntyre...
...Chief In your article "An Enforcer Named Emanuel" [Feb. 2] you state that the new Chief of Staff at the White House earned $18 million at an investment firm in two years. Given the revelations recently concerning pay and bonuses in the financial sector, was this information meant as praise or criticism? Leslie Keogh, AIXE-SUR-VIENNE, FRANCE
...seen. Remember, I was six years of age. I had never been in a place like this. I was a working-class kid from a Polish neighborhood in Detroit, and this was quite an event for me. I've only begun in later years to appreciate what it all meant...
Driven by more humble if no less admirable ambitions, Karim Vionnet launched his Villié-Morgon vineyard to "make a wine that was simple and natural." That meant rejecting the common thermovinification technique (which he says homogenizes wines) in favor of a cold carbonic maceration that preserves freshness without added sulfites. His Beaujolais-Villages, with their ample red fruit flavors and light, tickling tannins, epitomize the French word for silky gulpability - gouleyant...
Corporate managers in Asia have always treated their staff with a touch of paternalism. Companies were not meant to be simply places of work, but big, happy families. In parts of north Asia, especially Japan and South Korea, employees spent more time with their coworkers, either at their desks slaving away until late at night or in regular evening drinking fests, than with their own husbands and wives. Layoffs were considered unseemly. In Japan, a social contract of "lifetime employment" guaranteed full-time employees they would have jobs until retirement. In China, communism brought the "iron rice bowl" and institutionalized...