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...Shopping period] has become something of a sacred cow,” said Burgard. “I’m going to listen to the arguments and hope that some attention is paid to this pedagogical consideration that I think is the most important...
Iraqi security, says the British file, has completely blocked all attempts to interview scientists. Iraqi agents choose the venues for such talks, then listen in and even videotape the proceedings. Secret police hang around the scene to observe any covert behavior, like whispered conversations or note passing. Inspectors have been reluctant to ask any scientist to be interviewed outside the country because the security forces brandish lists of relatives whom they are ready to punish if the scientists give anything away. Thus far none have agreed to leave Iraq...
...flip side: many CEOs in particular are not disposed to listen to someone they don't consider a peer. "There's still a pecking order in the boardroom," says the Council of Institutional Investors' Teslik. It will be up to new directors to breach that barrier. Munoz, for his part, says he would not join any board that seemed resistant to change. "It's not that difficult to tell whether someone is sincere about wanting to include you in the decision-making process," he says...
...picks--TIME senior writer DANIEL KADLEC assembled a Board of Money Managers, five top investment pros (see box, right) who share a taste for dividend-paying stocks but are far from unanimous on just how to use them. That's appropriate, because different investors will always have different needs. Listen in on the discussion and see where...
...Most likely the tuk tuk will eventually go the way of the samlor and of its person-powered relative, the ricksha, becoming just another tourist curio and footnote in the annals of Asian transport. But to watch tuk tuks zigzagging cheekily through cracks in the traffic, to listen to that deafening two-stroke note that sounds like a defiant raspberry directed at detractors, is to realize that the tuk tuk is not going to go without a fight...