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Bush came to his benevolent view of corporate America by way of Midland, Texas, where the young Harvard Business School graduate landed in 1975 hoping to strike it rich in the oil business. There, Bush recalls, businesses were filled with "good men" who would strike a deal on a handshake or the strength of a family name. When the oil boom went bust, as it did for Bush in the mid-1980s, small-business men didn't cash out their stock options and run; they took pay cuts and tried to help their employees. To Bush, Enron and WorldCom were...
...Triggers can be as natural as a lightning strike, as innocent as a campfire or as sinister as an arsonist...
...Aggression Two Russian combat planes crossed into Georgian airspace and bombed the mountains on the border with Chechnya, Georgian officials claimed. Film from the Pankisi Gorge, a valley in the northern Caucasus Mountains, showed large craters on a hillside and dead sheep, said to have been killed in the strike. Russia denied the allegations but accused Georgia of sheltering Chechen terrorists. The U.S., worried that Pankisi could harbor al-Qaeda activists, has sent soldiers to Georgia to train antiterrorism forces...
...URUGUAY Strikes and Riots Looting broke out in the capital Montevideo as workers held a general strike to protest the country's worsening economic crisis. Demonstrators threw rocks and robbed supermarkets, bakeries, butchers' shops and a pizzeria before the police moved in. The rioting came two days after the government ordered banks to close to stop people withdrawing their savings in reaction to Argentina's continuing crisis...
...attacks must end, and PA officials have in recent weeks been locked in intense negotiations with leaders of groups undertaking terror attacks in the hope of persuading them to accept a unilateral cease-fire. It's been a tough sell, and any progress was dashed by the Gaza air strike. Given the political outlook of Hamas, in particular, any cease-fire would necessarily be a temporary tactical choice, undertaken principally to avoid forcing the PA into a head-to-head fight and to protect Hamas's position in the wider Arab world. But the Gaza strike suspended even that discussion...