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Clive Owen, your standard-issue obsessed movie hero, fights for the length of The International to bring down the rogue bank IBBC, which has committed financial and war crimes on a vast scale. Don't waste your time, or your life, says bank biggie Armin Mueller-Stahl. "The system guarantees IBBC's safety - because everyone is involved." This corrupt bank will be protected, in other words, by all the other corrupt banks. And regulators. And politicians...
...success of that approach led her to develop a similar guide for doctors who want to discuss religious questions with cancer patients. The approach has not yet been tested in any large-scale studies, but in the smaller surveys Kristeller has conducted, it has been a roaring success: up to 90% of the patients whose doctors approached them in this way were not offended by the overture, and 75% said it was very helpful. Within as little as three weeks, the people in that group reported reduced feelings of depression, an improved quality of life and a greater sense that...
...Don’t Drop Out.” Significant reform initiatives helped boost ACT scores, doubled the number of CPS students taking Advanced Placement exams, and opened over thirty new schools. In Washington, Duncan will have to take on education reform on a national scale...
...first taste of Boston politics while working with the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) in 2002, helping restore a parcel of land to Chinatown that had been claimed by the city and bulldozed 40 years earlier to pave a highway for the Big Dig. Yoon said that the scale of the campaign that ACDC mounted to reclaim the land led him to realize a fight for social change needed political backing in order to be truly efficacious. Boston’s Chinatown was founded in 1890, and it remains the only historically Asian neighborhood in New England. Despite a long...
...because of the scale and severity of the global recession, companies appear to be fighting a losing battle. As losses mount and order books shrink, mass layoffs are necessary for survival. In Japan, where carmakers and consumer electronics manufacturers are confronting unprecedented losses, many of the country's most famous firms have been forced to break tradition and announce major job cuts. Just this week, carmaker Nissan said it would reduce its global workforce by 20,000, or about 8%. A few days before Nissan's announcement, Panasonic announced 15,000 layoffs and NEC another...