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...Tell me why port security shouldn't be better. Tell me why border security shouldn't be our first priority. Tell me why I shouldn't care that the FBI still has an inoperable computer system. If Ms. Coulter can give me an argument to dissuade me those things aren't of paramount importance, I'll listen...
...food industry stopped using horsemeat about 12 years ago. Some 90% of the horses still sent to the slaughterhouses aren't old or sick but in good condition, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "Killer buyers" roam the country purchasing horses but not telling owners they'll end up at a slaughterhouse...
...many chief executives would even hint that they aren't up to the job. But Bill Ford never appeared all that comfortable running his namesake company. An avowed environmentalist, he tried unsuccessfully to turn Ford into a green car leader and was forced to backtrack as the company's finances fizzled. In Detroit, the buzz is that he's too nice a guy, unwilling to impose draconian job cuts at the risk of angering the UAW. In an interview last winter with TIME, he acknowledged that he found the CEO's role confining at times. And it has been clear...
...Andrew Zimbalist, a sports-business expert and economics professor at Smith College. "I'm sure Bidwill is delighted," says the economist, but he notes that the extra income isn't a competitive advantage. First, other teams have similar extra income streams that new stadiums generate. Second, the Cardinals aren't going to be outspending anyone for talent because all NFL teams have a salary cap--$102 million in 2006, up from $85.5 million in 2005--which most reach...
...Instead, Masako was swallowed whole by the all-powerful Imperial Household Agency (IHA), the palace insiders that guard - and, according to some observers, dominate - the lives of the royal family. Unlike the British royals, for instance, the Japanese imperial family's schedule is completely controlled by the IHA. They aren't allowed to have opinions, passports or even last names. Stifled by the IHA, Masako crumbled under the intense pressure to perform her single duty: to bear a male heir. In 2001, after one miscarriage, she finally bore Princess Aiko, who remains the couple's only child. Not long after...