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...Mr. Slavitt is running as he says—to bring a two-party system to the district,” says Josh Sugarman, Green’s campaign manager. “The Green campaign supports that completely and respects his desire...
...Council - the IGC figure least likely to be included in Brahimi's list for a provisional government - for being an "Arab nationalist." Then again, the U.S. is unlikely to find anyone capable of arbitrating the increasingly complex politics of Iraq at the same time as professing enthusiasm for either Mr. Chalabi or Israel. And the fact that it took a personal intervention by President Bush to persuade Brahimi to accept the assignment shows the administration sees the 70-year-old Algerian diplomat as its last best hope for achieving some kind of political consensus among Iraqis...
...people go about their business with good humor and goodwill, earnestly meeting the quotidian challenges common to every country. The books also "make a moral point about the importance of courtesy, of trying to keep traditional ways," says the author. Thus Ramotswe's fiance is always referred to as Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and his place of work by its full name, the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. AIDS, on the other hand, rife in that part of Africa, is never mentioned by name (most Botswanans "won't use it either," McCall Smith says), although it's acknowledged touchingly in the books...
...growing fame is not so easily dispensed with. But it has its upside, celebrity fans. At yet another literary-society gathering, this one in Beverly Hills, Calif., McCall Smith had a very-not-traditionally built gate crasher, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "I noticed Mr. Flea had the word LOVE tattooed across his right hand," he said later. "Many of my readers do not. It's nice to have a variation." Politely put, as ever...
Scott may be the last Wal-Mart CEO schooled by Sam Walton, the discount Dalai Lama, so it's important that the effervescent, customer-focused culture that "Mr. Sam" created be preserved and communicated as the company expands across China and other global markets. That means empowering employees wherever they are, says Scott: "We cannot grow if we are not a great place to work." --By Bill Saporito