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...Parauan family: five people who now live in one tiny room of a dank, Ceausescu-era tower block, which the executives visit for a stark reality check. Whoops of delight rise up when the first frames are hauled into place and a house starts to take shape. "Sometimes I feel like I've sold my soul, working for a multinational," says Katerina Pette, 30, who moved from Greece to manage the Ikea inventory for Whirlpool. "But when the company gives you opportunities like this, it's like you make penitence in the end ... it helps me realize that what...
Junichiro Koizumi has left Japan's economy in better shape than he found it upon becoming Prime Minister in 2001. The most consequential achievement was stabilizing the banking system by slashing nonperforming loans (NPLs). This was indispensable to the recovery of the past few years. Koizumi also cut wasteful public works. Still, with so much unfinished business, it is vital that his successor (and Japan as a whole) resists complacency...
...Though he serves a middle ground between both sides of the proverbial Harvard coin, it’s the players who have done the most to shape Tully, and vice versa...
...House Democrats were just as quick to point to another group that's benefited from the new program: the pharmaceutical industry, which spent millions lobbying Congress two years ago to shape a drug bill to its satisfaction. On Tuesday the Democrats released their own report showing that profits for the 10 largest pharmaceutical companies increased by more than $8 billion during the first six months of the new Medicare program. From January to June, the top 10 drug manufacturers raked in $39.8 billion in profits, according to the Democratic report, a 27% jump over profits for the same period...
...trip was the first for the new head of the Vatican press office, Father Federico Lombardi, already the director general of Vatican radio and television, who takes over for longtime papal spokesman Joaqu?n Navarro-Valls. Though Navarro-Valls, a suave Opus Dei layman, was prized for his ability to shape John Paul's message for the modern media, he too had appeared to be biding his time since the start of this pontificate. The Jesuit scholar Lombardi, a much more low-key figure, must begin to help translate Benedict's lofty prose into the stuff of daily news copy. Also...