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...Another problem was to recruit the necessary staff. MI5 is expanding and will have 4000 staff by 2011. They may not, however, reflect the diversity of the population they are expected to protect. Two of Evans' last three predecessors were women, but the numbers of female applicants to the Security Service are falling...
CRITICS OFTEN EXAGGERATE THE IMPACT of farm programs, as if the Great Plains would become amber waves of arugula if only we stopped subsidizing King Corn. But government policies are supposed to reflect national priorities. Politics isn't destiny, but it does influence behavior on the margins. And in a country with 1 billion acres (40 million hectares) of farms and ranches, we've got big margins...
...find-meaning business," says Howard Husock, who directs the Manhattan Institute's Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, which honors innovative charitable actions annually. Now, he says, with many reaching retirement age and expecting to live another 20 or 30 years, "they have the luxury of being able to reflect on what meaning...
...Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down,” provides a powerful yet non-distracting score, but music supervisor Kathy Nelson does an impressive job of incorporating old school-soul ballads from the likes of platinum artist Anthony Hamilton with classic jams that reflect the decade. The music helps lift the movie from a simple “based-on-a-true-story” flick to a film wrought with a sense of empowerment and empathy despite the harsh implications of the plot. “American Gangster?...
...can’t find out about this until it’s happening.” However, Norris suggested that the media has regularly predicted fluctuations in the economy, but that the general public has typically ignored words of caution in the press because these predictions may not reflect the current situation. “Eventually I got tired of writing how crazy the stock market was,” Norris said of the tech bubble at its peak. Frankel said that the bubble was not covered extensively in the late 1990s because journalists are more interested in projects...