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The first rationale for allowing executives like Lewis and Pandit to remain where they are is that the series of financial company CEO firings which took place less than two years ago was not effective. The results of the turnover were, by almost any measure, a failure. Chuck Prince at...
First, forget about quick-fix, feel-good bans and start enforcing the laws you already have. In Britain, drunk driving causes 16% (rather than half, as in Thailand) of road deaths, thanks to a combination of strong policing, heavy penalties and shocking public-awareness campaigns. A three-day booze ban...
After a disappointing Saturday afternoon, the Harvard baseball team returned to Murray Field at Brown yesterday looking to avenge a pair of ugly losses. Instead, the Crimson (10-26, 8-8 Ivy) left as befuddled as it had arrived, dropping its second twinbill in as many days and falling out...
When the shooting got started, I saw it on the local news and drove up to the school. I worked about a month on the story for Salon and thought I was done. I really wanted to be done. But it kept pulling me back. The morning after Columbine, the...
In the short run, CIA morale will be hurt by yet another investigation. But at the same time it will force the agency to take a much needed honest look at its reporting on al-Qaeda. One memo notes that in 2004 the CIA obtained half of its reporting on...