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...increased hiring activity is coming at a time when a number of firms are repositioning themselves in the wake of the financial crisis. The nation's largest banks are exiting such risky businesses as derivatives and proprietary trading, and adding to their lending operations. At the same time, smaller financial firms are building up their practices to pick up the trading and underwriting businesses the larger firms are leaving behind...
...global hammer-throwing political power. The member states did all that 200 to 300 years ago, and history has moved on. The Lisbon Treaty was not designed to colour chunks of the planet blue with yellow stars. Its job is to get the national economies of 27 extremely diverse nation-states working together more smoothly than before, and getting the politics united is just part of that economic lubrication. Better by far to be underwhelming and effective rather than overbearing and running a democracy where agreed national reform legislation - vitally needed - can find itself blocked due to the lack...
...even assault are not reported is that women who report them are routinely accused of being lesbians. Women (and men) in the military can be subject to intrusive, abusive and distracting investigations into their private lives based on a single unfounded allegation about their sexuality. As long as our nation's military has a policy that makes fear of gays and lesbians more important than punishing assault, this problem will continue to exist. Rick Villaseor San Diego...
...never see at home in Hong Kong. Japan is a respite from the rest of Asia in many other ways. While much of the region is still hurtling along the path of development - a blinding whirl of frenetic construction and perpetual change - Japan is a vision of stability, a nation that has everything others in Asia want, and has already had it all for decades. Money. Technology. Global brands. A seat at the table with the powerful countries of the industrialized world. Those of us old enough will also recall that Japan used to scare the pants off Americans...
...must instead renew the hope of progress promised to a nation and repair the divisions that threaten its realization. This is our Civil War to fight and America’s two-party system, our “peculiar institution” to overcome...