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...rock: Midnight Oil, INXS, the Angels, the Radiators. Latham and his cohorts first faced the job market in the prolonged recession of the early 1980s. He is old enough to remember the cold war and life before McDonald's, yet young enough to have caught the first wave of the information revolution and be the father of two boys not yet in school. That's the when...
...mere prospect of fresh thinking in Jakarta has been enough to send a wave of optimism surging through the capital. After years of dithering leadership, economists, businessmen and ordinary Indonesians are hopeful that Yudhoyono's popular mandate (past leaders were chosen by parliament, not through direct elections) will give him the authority to overcome obstacles that his predecessors could not. "There are grounds for confidence," says Andrew Steer, the World Bank's country director for Indonesia. "The recognition of the problems is now there...
...Scruggs and Co. are riding a wave of challenges to the nonprofit-hospital sector. The IRS is probing dozens of those institutions over questions of excessive CEO pay, insider transactions, sweetheart loans and conflicts of interest on hospital boards. Congress recently held hearings on hospital billing and abusive collection tactics. The attorneys general in Illinois and Mississippi have been investigating similar issues. In Mississippi, the U.S. Attorney recently sued Baptist Health Systems, accusing it of paying kickbacks to doctors and filing fraudulent cost reports. (Baptist denies the charges.) Bills are also pending in California and Illinois that would clamp down...
...bluntly declared the war illegal. The Iraq Survey Group is shortly expected to report formally that the weapons of mass destruction on which Blair based his case for war cannot be found. An eccentric but still damaging motion to impeach him for misleading Parliament over Iraq is making some waves. Recently leaked documents show that senior colleagues had warned him that Washington's postwar plans were inadequate, and that terrorism would likely increase after a war - something he did not tell the country at the time. Looking unusually defensive, Blair used a press conference with Iraq's interim Prime Minister...
...realize it’s not poor eyesight; instead, you’re struck that they look you right in the eyes, yet make a conscious decision to exit the comforting realm of acquaintanceship. Looking quite awkward with your mid-flight hand wave, you quickly regroup, and pass this now former friend (exiting acquaintanceship means entering the abyss of “recognizable…but not worth it?...