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Corporate America's reputation is on the mend. For the first time in four years, the percentage of people saying that the reputation of Big Business is "good" rose from 12% to 18% in Harris Interactive's annual survey of what people think of companies. Respondents thought most highly of tech outfits like Google and Amazon, but they thought poorly of big financial firms and most carmakers, with Warren Buffett-run Berkshire Hathaway claiming the top spot on the list. Among the companies with the worst reputations were General Motors, Goldman Sachs and AIG. (See 10 perfect jobs...
...rhetorical flourish. Within a generation, Thailand was transformed from an exotic R&R playground for American soldiers fighting in Vietnam into Southeast Asia's manufacturing base, the world's top rice exporter and one of the most inviting vacation destinations on the planet. Yet even though per capita annual incomes reached nearly $4,000 in 2009, many Thais are still stuck in rice paddies or fish canneries wondering how the nation's economic boom bypassed them. Thailand now has one of the worst income disparities in the region. The 100,000-plus red shirts who have descended on Bangkok...
BILL CLINTON, on filling in for President Obama, who was unable to make the annual Gridiron Dinner because of the impending vote on his health care bill...
...friends that first evening. Everyone expressed interest, but we kept the machine to the side while we gossiped about other things. We did call upon it to answer trivia: What kind of movie career did Farrah Fawcett have? Was it insignificant enough to justify her exclusion from the Oscars' annual montage of farewells last month? (Answer: She made Cannonball Run but was quite good in The Apostle. Otherwise, she was a TV star.) It was easier to look the information up on the iPad rather than switch on a computer or fumble through the multiple steps required on a smart...
...universities are now capped at $4,800, but university officials say government grants barely cover half of what it costs to teach an undergraduate student. In order to remain competitive with the university systems in the U.S., Canada and China, Christopher Patten, the chancellor of Oxford University, told the annual conference of the Independent Schools Council in London last month that British tuition fees must be increased. "I don't think it is realistic to say that the gap should be closed by the taxpayer," he said. "It is plain that we are going to require higher tuition fees...