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...need to educate people on the issues at stake,” he said. “We have to neutralize the rhetoric on the right... Maybe we should have debates on the proper role of judges in society...
...ailing company? So far, GM's board is standing by its chairman's relatively cautious strategy. The same may not be said of Kirk Kerkorian, the casino mogul and billionaire who owns nearly 10% of GM shares. He has lost an estimated $390 million on his stake and has indicated he may seek board representation. Kerkorian tried to take over Chrysler, and while he isn't expected to try that with GM, he's likely to lobby for Wagoner to speed up the turnaround, if not agitate for a tougher-minded outsider to take the helm...
...make things better." She cites a controversial 1996 British television exposé of abuses at Chinese orphanages. "Right away the orphanages were closed, adoptions discontinued, cleft-palate and other special surgery stopped. My husband and I worked with some of those orphanages, so we know what was at stake. Does publicly humiliating China save lives? Or is China more effectively motivated by other things, like trade agreements?" How did a writer known for parsing personal dilemmas get interested in the political kind? The answer may lie in the inner turmoil Tan faced just before fate led her to Burma...
Harvard reserve forward Brian Darcy hit a free throw with 13:55 remaining to stake the Crimson to a 55-47 lead—its biggest advantage of the second half. But the Pioneers put together a 10-2 run to knot the game at 57 and capitalized on that momentum to take its first lead since the opening minutes of the game, 61-60 with 6:35 remaining...
...panicked already bug-eyed energy markets this year by raising taxes and royalties on Venezuelan oil piped by what he calls scofflaw foreign oil firms, including U.S. giants like ExxonMobil. He's insisting that they convert their drilling contracts into joint ventures that give the government a majority stake...