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...would act dishonestly to save their jobs, a quarter of them would explicitly lie, and 4% would flirt with their boss for an advantage. It's not clear whether members of the younger generation are simply more forthcoming than their elders about bad behaviors, or whether they're just plain old bad. Probably a bit of both, says Kenny. "They are the newest in the professional world, so they are still learning the professional lessons of integrity and quality," she says. "Sometimes they can only be learned the hard way." (Read "Does Office Romance...
...that the ideas, as he said, "are meant to explain the world as it is, not as it used to be." In the face of economic contraction, we're rethinking things we used to take for granted. The opening piece, by Barbara Kiviat, acknowledges that in these difficult times, plain old jobs, not stocks or real estate, are our most valuable assets. Sean Gregory writes about a new minimalist model for the shopping experience, and Bryan Walsh looks at how the suburbs are reimagining themselves now that the economy can no longer support the massive shopping centers that used...
...you’re not,” he shot back. Then he immediately went back to singing. The insolent codger!I flushed with shame as I was thrust from the pew. Of course I couldn’t challenge his abuse now that I stood in plain sight of every parishioner (yet again!). So, what could I do but offer him a winsome smirk—a way of saying to everyone else, “No no, that might’ve looked nasty but Mr. Oswald is such a dear. He can just get a little carried...
...would be destructive for the traditionalists to attempt to purge the reformers, who have some good ideas. But for the reformers to attempt to purge the traditionalists, who outnumber them, is just plain batty. If the reformers succeed, it will be by persuading traditionalists like Limbaugh, not bulldozing over them. (See the screwups of Campaign...
Today it was the turn of Winnenden (pop. 27,600), a pretty town some 12 miles (20 km) outside Stuttgart in southern Germany. At 9:30 in the morning, Tim Kretschmer, a 17-year-old former student of Albertville Realschule entered the school's plain, white flat-roofed building wielding a 9mm Beretta and, as a police spokesman described it, "simply opened fire". On his rampage through classrooms and corridors, the youngster, clad in black combat gear and reportedly wearing a mask, killed nine pupils, all of them aged 14 or 15, and three women teachers, and injured seven others...