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Cassandra Wilson Loverly; out now Wilson, a distinctively dusky-voiced singer who can work jazz's boundaries with pop, avant-garde and blues, here assembles an album of standards echoing her breakthrough Blue Skies (1988). A few tracks are a little too standard, but more often a languid beat kicks in, and Wilson's subtle phrasing, filled with cunning pauses, casts its steamy spell...
...clear their interest in financial - not political - returns. And with Norway's central bank left alone to run the fund, the role of the country's government - in deciding its broad strategy and monitoring its performance - is clearly defined. Such measures have made the fund the industry's gold standard. In a recent study by the U.S.-based Peterson Institute for International Economics, Norway's fund scored 100% for governance, as well as accountability and transparency. The Government of Singapore Investment Corp. averaged just 40%; the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority trailed with...
...haven't transferred the skills or expertise needed to provide decent jobs." Many companies don't care (as long as the audits look good), but more progressive firms are working to develop creative new ways to improve factory conditions, moving far beyond mainstream tactics like auditing and standard codes of conduct...
...system, taking what Kobori calls "a more anthropological, fieldwork" approach to gathering information. Rather than merely interviewing managers, or speaking with employees inside the factory, monitors would seek out workers at bus stops and cafés. The approach uncovered information on sensitive issues such as sexual harassment that standard audits would typically have missed...
When it comes to economic policy, Barack Obama's standard campaign crack that a John McCain Administration would amount to a third term of George W. Bush contains an awful lot of truth. Yes, McCain is a different man, with a different history, who will face a different set of challenges and opportunities than Bush has. But look through McCain's campaign pledges on the economy, and for the most part they really do amount to a continuation of two key policy priorities of the Bush Administration: cutting taxes and moving more economic decisions (and responsibilities) into the hands...