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...guns, a lighter, and a bar full of flammable alcohol. The move over Hedda’s duration from relative peace to high-strung shooting and burning is inexorable, highly telegraphed and oh-so-precisely plotted, rarely allowing a spare motivation or interaction to take place along the path to the final horror...
...else equal, this approach yields a smaller permanent work force, more temporary workers and more permanent layoffs." The temp-services industry calls this "strategic staffing"--keeping a core group of full-timers while adding and subtracting temporary and contract workers as needed. Employees call it a new career path--or a raw deal that deprives them of job benefits and security. Either way, more workers are going to have to get used...
...leader speaks Arabic with a decidedly Iranian accent and is never seen in public. There have been only six "official" photos of him published, and his most loyal followers have never heard his voice. He rarely leaves his small, dusty Najaf house other than to travel down a dirt path to his religious seminary. He shuns all interviews with the press and refuses to meet with Iraq's American occupiers. Yet with one call last November, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani brought plans for an American transfer of power to a grinding halt. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein...
Nevertheless, with the passing years and remarkable courage, the Pope has pointed out the path to reconciliation with other religions, but above all with the oldest, to which Christianity owes so much. He recognized the state of Israel, visited Jerusalem, prayed at the Western Wall, spoke from his heart at the museum of Yad Vashem, delivered an address at a synagogue in Rome. He presided over a ceremony at the Vatican commemorating the Holocaust and gave audiences to many Jewish delegations from all over the world. At one point, the Vatican initiated plans for a private meeting between myself...
...path of an oil leader is rarely smooth. In 2002, Browne was forced to cut BP's production forecasts three times in two months. But Browne is tough and prepared to play a long game. In 2001 BP announced that it was looking for his successor. It then noted that the post would not be vacant for seven years. --By John Elkington, chairman of SustainAbility, the social-responsibility group