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Which brings us to Washington. Despite increasing evidence that Americans are worried about climate change - Congress continues to drag its feet on a nationwide carbon reduction plan similar to ones already enacted by the faster-moving states. Hopefully, that will begin to change. The long delayed McCain-Lieberman bill - which...
In any family firm, there is that moment when parent and boss intersect. For Hong Kong billionaire William Fung, that moment has arrived, and with it comes his own special predicament. In 1972, as a brash 23-year-old fresh out of Harvard Business School, he reluctantly joined Li & Fung...
"Free samples of Stride gum?” asked the two pretty blondes standing outside of the Mass. Ave. CVS last Wednesday afternoon. Passers-by were offered colorful handfuls of sample-sized gum by pairs of young women stationed on either side of the street. Some hold their hands out...
And yet there are Australian traits that do, indisputably, come down to modern Australia from the vanished days of the bush, and even from the convict era. They are wound tightly into our social history. One of these is the value set on "mateship"; another, related to it, is a...
Some Australians will tell you they have a classless society. This is the merest fantasy. Never since human societies began has there been a classless one. We began with the most ironbound of all class distinctions, between prisoners and the free. The freeborn (the "sterling") were bitterly opposed to giving...