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...until last week threatened to sink ships, ground planes and retire soldiers in order to reduce U.S. forces overseas and free up money for more research in areas such as missile defense. "This is one of the most interesting situations I've seen in a long time," says Representative Norm Dicks, a pro-military Democrat from Washington State. "He says he wants the military to stop saying they can fight two wars on two fronts simultaneously. But he has opened more fronts in Washington than any Defense Secretary in memory...
...trouble begins even before you enter. As authorities have banned fossil-fuel vehicles in the area, visitors must rent battery-driven cars or carts drawn by horses or camels. Despite fixed rates, overcharging is the norm. The drivers are rude, the hiring and negotiating shambolic. Flies swarm the animals and the dung they liberally scatter across the potholed roads. When you reach the entrance to the mausoleum that Emperor Shah Jahan built for his second wife, Queen Mumtaz Mahal, hawkers touting miniature Taj Mahals, bottled water and postcards, add to the chaos. You may shake them...
...reputation. There are other issues at CSFB too. The firm overpaid for competitor Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, and now is losing some of the star bankers that came with that acquisition. CSFB defines excess: 60% of revenue goes toward employee compensation, a full 10 percentage points over the industry norm...
...Alimentos, located on the remote Amazon island of Marajo. Muana cultivates acaizeiro palms and packages and sells the palms' hearts (prized for gourmet salads) and their purple acai fruit (used in Howler's organic Rainforest Sorbet). In an industry in which exploitation of the environment and workers is the norm, Muana stood out by refusing to employ children. It paid its workers and suppliers at least 28% above the $78-a-month minimum wage. And it harvested the hearts and fruit of the acaizeiro in a way that sustained the plants and their surroundings. But the company was drowning...
...women in the Yard was not necessarily momentous for men either. “It was kind of a non-event,” says Mark R. Depman ’76, who lived in Thayer. “We arrived at Harvard and assumed that it was the norm. Our entryway was all male anyway, but there was a very collegial atmosphere with the women who were around...