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...mention Dale Earnhardt's death on the front page the day after his death. There have been novels and Broadway plays written about Ann Coulter's one mistake, which was pretty minor IMHO [in my humble opinion]--the Times article DID begin: 'His death brought a silence to the Wal-Mart...
...SCOTT, CEO of the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, countering critics of the company's labor practices and low wages
...relief, then, to find little mention of Iraq in Friedman's new book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 488 pages). Instead the author embarks on a "trail of globalization" that leads him from Wal-Mart warehouses in Bentonville, Ark., to office parks in Bangalore, India. Thanks to a convergence of trends--cheap telecommunications, expanded trade, open-source software, Google--the global playing field is being "flattened" faster than ever before, allowing workers in India and China to compete with, and even outperform, their U.S. counterparts. Friedman sees this transition...
...justify the robber baron culture, America’s business educators and economists falsely cite their demigod of laissez-faire market economics, Adam Smith. Little do they know that Adam Smith in fact scathingly castigated Bush’s type of government: business collusion and unfair taxes, Wal-Mart’s exploitations of labor and communities, and robber barons’ hubris. Nowhere in his 900-page book, The Wealth of Nations, does Smith even imply that those who knowingly harm others and society in their pursuit of personal greed also benefit their society. He rejects the notion that...
Linton was found by police in North Carolina two days later. He was arrested in a Raleigh Wal-Mart, and was initially charged in North Carolina as a fugitive-from-justice...