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...drug industry says it has created 126 health partnerships with governments and aid organizations that have helped up to 539 million people since 2000. Some observers remain cynical, however. They say CSR is mere window dressing - a clinic here, an outreach program there - that does not address the root problem of how to get drugs to the broadest number of people who need them most...
Then there's the problem of tempo. Other modern movies move at warp speed, but the cowboy hero is a man with a slow hand. As Christopher Frayling, author of biographies of Eastwood and Leone, notes, "You can speed up spaceships and cars, but you can't speed up horses." A director also has a tough time making the old new--and the western is 19th century. "Americans don't like the past," says Andrew Dominik, the New Zealand-born writer-director of Jesse James. "They're O.K. with future and the present, but they can't remember anything before...
...just a corporate problem either: the weight of retiree health-care costs could crush state and local governments. The largest employers in the U.S., state and local governments sign the paychecks for more than 16 million Americans, many of them with generous health benefits in retirement. Municipalities, unlike private companies, are not required to account for their unfunded retirement obligations, but they will be soon...
...released from the marriage. "I told him I was sorry I had failed so severely ... He told me that I needed to repent, that I was not living up to my vows, I was not being obedient, I was not being submissive, and that was what my problem was," she said. She stayed married for more than three years--ultimately sleeping in a truck to avoid her husband--before she left to marry another man, whose child she was already carrying...
More troubling was the elevation of Greenspan to all-purpose economic guru, which he seemed to welcome. His incomprehensible pronouncements about monetary policy weren't a problem; his perfectly comprehensible comments about matters not directly related to Fed policy were...