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...easy. The way forward may not be entirely clear. But discipline and vision are what good management is all about, and in the long run we'd be better off to embrace these qualities than to pin our futures on amiable incompetence...
...critical. So far, the trade relationship with China has been a minor issue on the political landscape, largely because U.S. unemployment is very low. But the economy is slowing, and an election year looms. If the U.S. economy stumbles, China will be the biggest, fattest target on which to pin the blame. Meanwhile, China will likely continue recycling its massive foreign reserves, possibly making itself an even bigger target by going on a buying spree similar to Japan's in the late 1980s and early '90s: Japan buys Hollywood! Japan buys Pebble Beach! Japan buys Rockefeller Center! Remember too, Japan...
Capturing Beltransgaz, Medvedev says, was nothing less than restoring the status quo--the Unified Gas Supply System of Russia (UGSS) that supplied the old Soviet empire. "One of the mistakes that our so-called reformers made was having the UGSS sadistically dismembered," he explains to TIME, sitting back, pin-striped and relaxed, in his techno-style office that dominates the ninth floor of the posh new Gazpromexport headquarters in downtown Moscow. His disdain of the architects of Russia's early market reform is de rigueur for top executives under President Vladimir Putin. Medvedev isn't finished. He says Gazprom wants...
...some parents feel Redwood has gone too far. Donnell Scott, T.K.'s mom, sits with three other mothers at the kitchen table of her modest ranch-style house five blocks from the school. Their kids have all been "dress-coded"--punished for wearing an American Cancer Society pin or a T shirt with JESUS FREAK written on it--and, after three years fighting the policy, they're fed up. Free speech is one issue ("What a kid wears says, This is what I'm into," Scott explains), but the dispute also seems to be about control...
...added the title "antichrist," (although apparently without any Satanic intention) and his apostles have taken to tattooing "666" on their hands. Along the way, he has developed adherents - he claimed "millions" of followers to ABC in what his website says are 30 countries, although no expert feels competent to pin a number on them - while making his fair share of enemies; he is reportedly banned in several nations, in one case because his movement disrupted services by Roman Catholic churches...