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Since these sex scandals, no new ones have risen to take their place. We are witnessing a shift in what even popular journalists consider fair game. Some people persist in arguing that journalists are justified in airing the dirty laundry of anyone in the public eye: people want dirt and they insist on it. And perhaps we do. After all, a nasty, shocking scandal allows us to live vicariously in a sexy and seedy world that we can only catch a glimpse of in movies, not in our mundane lives...
Gabe Koragian, a student at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), asked the panel why diseases with inexpensive cures persist in developing countries...
...army. Most Afghanis loathe him as the commander responsible for reducing Kabul to rubble in a fierce power struggle with rival commanders that killed tens of thousands of people in the early 1990s. But his virulent anti-Americanism makes him a dangerous loose cannon amid the power struggles that persist throughout the Pashtun heartland. And he makes no bones about his intentions: "We prefer involvement in internal war rather than occupation by foreigners and foreign troops," he told an interviewer...
Will such opportunities persist in a postattack economic slump? Nik Theodore, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, warns, "When the economy begins to slow down, the staffing industry feels it first." But the dearth of baby-bust workers (born between 1965 and '76) may help counter the bad news. Besides, says Ann Kelleher, president of Mature Resources, an Omaha, Neb., staffing company, special factors may insulate older temp workers, especially highly skilled ones. "We see companies really valuing the work that experienced older workers bring to the table," she says...
...What's changed? In the face of a nontraditional national security threat, countries are cooperating as never before. Will it last? Probably not. Warmer ties between Russia and the U.S. will persist, but unlike the cold war, the terrorist threat is much more diffuse. Real change will require sustained attention by Bush to a range of problems he previously ignored...