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...last week summoned company president and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez to shed light on the matter in front of the national Assembly. Also last week, outgoing Defense Minister Gen. Raul Isaias Baduel said, in his farewell speech, that Chavez's beloved "socialism of the 21st century" was a vague model that was generating unease...
Numbers 35:11: "...then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there." Activists cite this as a kind of ancient model for their movement. Various verses in the Old Testament describe "cities of refuge," where someone guilty of causing accidental death can escape the dead man's bloodthirsty relatives. Says New Sanctuary Movement co-founder Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, "This is so relevant to the question of aliens: They have committed a crime, but is the punishment [deportation, and the corresponding disruption of productive lives...
...experience to fresh talent. Dodge & Cox hires only one or two analysts a year. Starting in the 1980s, that became a problem as the firm began covering foreign companies. Dodge & Cox could have hired a big batch of analysts but decided not to, fearing it would wreck the apprenticeship model. "If you hire five people at the same time, they all start going to lunch together," says president Ken Olivier, a member of the U.S.-stocks committee. And as years passed, there might not have been enough promotions to go around. So instead, the firm added research associates--recent college...
...stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Alton concludes, "The New Sanctuary Movement is a light in the darkness, water in the desert. We need to model what it means not just to give the minimum but to treat immigrants like citizens and love them like we love ourselves...
Depending on the subject at hand, the day-to-day running of the worldwide Catholic Church can resemble either a sort of centralized sacred politburo or a loose confederation of autonomous dioceses. If you prefer a business model, it's top-down management vs. franchising. Though imperfect, these analogies can help address a lingering question in the wake of the Los Angeles archdiocese's record $660 million settlement with victims of clergy sex abuse: What is the Vatican's responsibility...