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...when she woke up to vomit during the night, could not be identified - because he was an innocent man. Ireland's Supreme Court had ruled that a 71-year-old statutory rape law was unconstitutional, because it did not allow the accused to argue that he honestly believed the victim was above the age of consent. The immediate result was that Mr. A walked, but the decision's effect rippled powerfully throughout the country. The Irish edition of the Sun, Britain's leading tabloid, called Ireland a pervert's paradise, and its rival the Mirror warned families to lock...
...Company." Why limit ourselves to energy? Enron was fast-paced, inventive, exciting; we epitomized the New Economy, able to innovate virtually overnight. Unfortunately, in life, our strengths can become our weaknesses. Just as the dark side of charisma is narcissism, the dark side of innovation is fraud. Enron fell victim to both. Our finance, accounting and legal departments pushed the use of off-balance-sheet vehicles over the line that separates creative transactions from fraudulent ones. Our corporate culture became narcissistic; we were focused on our image, not our customers or our products. The most alarming revelation is how easy...
...less likely to fall victim to the next charismatic, innovative leader? I still wonder whether we truly recognize and value the appropriate traits in our leaders. We want honest leaders who are decisive, creative, optimistic and even courageous, but we so easily settle for talk that marks those traits instead of action. Worse, we often don't even look for one of the most critical traits of a leader: humility. A humble leader listens to others. He or she values input from employees and is ready to hear the truth, even if it is bad news. Humility is marked...
...Nothing's that simple, in life, or certainly in this movie. We're all victims, at times, and victimizers at other times. Yussef is an agent, an angel, of death. He's also a very charming, then very scared kid. Debbie and Mike, I suppose, are clearly victims, but the two child actors, especially Nathan Gamble, play fear beautifully. Chieko is a scarred creature, who can communicate only through extreme measures, and suffers the memory of finding her dead mother (a suicide victim who shot herself--another gun!). The children in Babel are complicated human beings, just like the adults...
...sinister, scary, evil plot," Lt. Paul Vernon of the Los Angeles Police Department told TIME.com. "We're continuing our investigation and looking at other possible targets." Vernon notes that because Rutterschmidt allegedly met her first victim in a Hungarian church, the LAPD is putting out feelers to the local Hungarian community for further leads. "The first and second incident were six years apart, so it's hard to believe there haven't been other victims." Both women are being held at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, Vernon says, and investigators have impounded Golay's new Mercedes...