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The scandals have been as humiliating for our great republic as they have been historic in scope and size. Filegate, Travelgate, hidden e-mails, lying under oath, hell to pay, abuse of the FBI, of the personnel system; a health-care task force that violated federal law; grand juries, billing...
Reorganizing a company is a timeworn way of trying to change the direction of a stock without facing fundamental problems. "When you have a company under pretty severe attack from the outside and you exacerbate that with a disorienting reorganization, I don't get very optimistic," says Anna-Maria Kovacs...
CEOs are also paying with their job for any big strategic failure. The purchase of a dog called the Learning Co. bit Mattel CEO Jill Barad in the career; she resigned under duress in February. In her farewell speech, Barad described the acquisition's effects as "devastating" to her toy...
But for all its popularity, the IM world remains frustratingly balkanized. At least a dozen systems are in service in the U.S. alone, many of them incompatible. This confusion adds to the pressure on AOL--which popularized instant messaging and commands a 90% share of the market--to allow rivals...
Florida is attempting to address a disturbing national phenomenon: the explosion in the number of mothers in prison. The population of women in U.S. prisons has risen 650% in the past two decades. Of the more than 149,000 female inmates currently in local jails and state and federal penitentiaries...