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...like a fuss? It is--a long-overdue fuss. About two years ago, the video-rental business began fading faster than Godzilla. Remarkably, the decline had little to do with new technologies like video on demand, long thought to be the industry's Death Star. The threats from technology persist. But it was management, not technology, that caused so much corporate pain and so many customer complaints. After all, how many times are you willing to go out for Titanic and come back with The Poseidon Adventure? Eventually you just stop going out. And that's exactly what happened: traffic...
...suggesting anything dramatic. Patient, long-term ownership of stocks remains a key to financial security. But stock prices are a lot higher than when you started investing, whether that was last decade or last year. The good times may persist until the last baby boomer retires in splendor in 2029. But the market has a history of taking back a good chunk of what it gave--and when you least expect it. Investors got a reminder of that last Tuesday, when the Dow plunged 151 points, part of a four-day drop. It fell an additional 176 points by midday...
...will the dress code persist once an offer is made? Those in synch with the corporate world say stubborn dress codes in the recruiting process definitely reflect what will be expected even after the deciding handshake...
While formal gender bias may be less of a problem academia today, female Faculty members and graduate students say subtle barriers and stereotypes still persist...
...America's social and economic ladder are a testament to slavery's continuing legacy? Their predicament stands in answer to Buchanan's observations that because we as a nation today are different from antebellum America, this nation has nothing to repent. The point is that the consequences of slavery persist in plaguing a whole segment of American citizens. While we must look towards the future, the contemporary problems most immediately affecting black communities of poor education, illegitimacy, drug use and nihilism can all be traced back to the institution of slavery. And that is why white America, as a governing...