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...Grilling a General Joe Klein eloquently expressed his disgust over the General David Petraeus dog and pony show before Congress [Sept. 24]. But Klein failed to mention the real reason the Senators didn't press Petraeus for legitimate answers: the military-industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about is a sinister weave of self-interest involving the nation's corporate, military and political powerhouses. Ken Hicks Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
...Klein eloquently expressed his disgust over the General David Petraeus dog and pony show before Congress [Sept. 24]. But Klein failed to mention the real reason the Senators didn't press Petraeus for legitimate answers: the military-industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about is a sinister weave of self-interest involving the nation's corporate, military and political powerhouses...
...mention for their employers. The companies that employ these commuting couples often get the best end of the deal: employees are married and thus thought to be more stable but are wedded as well to their jobs--perhaps especially so, given the physical absence of a spouse. Sheila Gleason, 49, met Jay Banerjee, 56, while both worked as banking executives in Singapore. He soon relocated to Germany, then to Belgium. She eventually accepted a big job in London. "During the week we would work ridiculous hours, so it was easy to devote weekends to each other and nothing else...
...ETERNAL LOVE New U.S. Census Bureau data show that the divorce rate, after rising sharply in the early 1970s, has remained relatively stable--not to mention high. Fewer than half the couples who first got married in the late 1970s made it to their 25th anniversary. Of the women who first got hitched in the late 1980s, only 57% reached their 15th anniversary, compared with 79% of brides in the late 1950s...
...print. Then came GE CEO Jack Welch, who received $7 million for his 2001 tell-all, Jack: Straight from the Gut. Of course, there are motivations for writing a book besides money: the earnest desire to pass along lessons learned, the urge to settle a few scores, not to mention ego. This month brings three new CEO tomes that span the spectrum of management styles from California New Age to pinstripe M.B.A. As different as they are, these corporate chiefs all worry about similar issues--making better products, weathering economic downturns, motivating employees--albeit in their own vocabularies...