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...architect of that victory, which put the GOP in control of the House for the first time in four decades. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he sees some serious problems brewing for his party that could indeed bring the Democrats back to power. The GOP's main problem, he says, has been its own performance. Given power, the reformers of 12 years ago are behaving just like the Washington insiders they used to consider the problem, he argues. Here are some excerpts of the interview...
...part: the sophomore effort from Winnipeg-based director Gary Yates (2004's Seven Times Lucky) is a comedy, albeit of the dark kind. And it works a bit in the same way that Niagara Falls succeeds as a tourist destination: it's wonderful if you can focus on the main attraction while disregarding the garish environment around...
...Some Israelis say that's because the three main candidates-Kadima?s Ehud Olmert, Likud?s Binyamin Netanyahu and Labor?s Amir Peretz-are all either uninspiring or distrusted. But the real reason may be that most Israelis consider the results to be a foregone conclusion. The latest polls give acting prime minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima party enough votes to clobber its rivals (though not enough for a majority); one weekend survey, conducted by the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, predicts that Kadima will win 36 Knesset seats, Labor 21, and Likud will end up a distant third with...
Although the tests have been around for more than a century, employers have increasingly glommed on to them for one main purpose: retention. Companies yearn to nip turnover, which averages about 15% across the workforce and costs at least a quarter of a departing worker's salary. Poorly performing employees are costly, to the tune of $100 billion a year in the U.S., according to one study. The tests claim to predict a worker's "fit" with the job and corporate culture--thereby increasing chances that the hire will stick. (H-P, of course, may want its money back; Fiorina...
...they? No test is an infallible predictor of behavior, says Paul Sackett, a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota who has studied the tests for 25 years. But standards have improved vastly over the past decade, thanks to the emergence of a uniform language involving five main types of behavior. The testing industry remains largely unregulated, however. "There's still a Wild West of unsupported, unproven tests out there," says Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Cult of Personality Testing...