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The answer is yes--sometimes--but not without great risk. Over the years, the U.S. government has spent a lot of time searching for a "truth serum," experimenting with electroshock and LSD without success. "Drugs in particular held out the highest hope," says Mark Bowden, who wrote a landmark story...
After an inquiry by an outside law firm, the Shell board gave what it hopes is the definitive answer: Just once. It said the probe had uncovered "disturbing deficiencies" in company practices, and announced the replacement of chief financial officer Judith Boynton. And for the third time this year, the...
At street level in marginal seats, where most election campaigns are settled, incumbency is a huge advantage. The local M.P. becomes well known in the community. He or she will be ever-present in community media and associated with popular causes or the funds to pay for a bridge, say...
In the summer of 2003 while we were in the middle of contract negotiations the University informed the union that they meant to layoff all seventeen remaining union guards. I asked for the help of Progressive Student Labor Movement and an e-mail campaign was mounted along with a public...
“For the first race that I can remember, we were never down on Princeton—after matching them off the start we just kept going,” Bothwell said. “It was a powerful race from the very beginning, and we...