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...write, great debates are raging here in the United Kingdom about war on Iraq. Much of the media is willfully distorting factual information in support of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, others are raising profound objections to a knee-jerk military solution to a universally-recognized problem. Only a few are looking at why such tyrants as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein emerge and seem to prosper in the world, and what factors turn villains (from our viewpoint) into heroes (from the viewpoint of many in the developing world...
Where IM generates complaints is not in e-commerce but in ordinary offices. Some workers and managers find it hard to research and write reports and do other tasks when instant messages are constantly popping up on their computer screen. And the temptation to chat with friends during work hours can also sap productivity. At some workplaces, important decisions are made on the fly via IM, so employees who fear being left out stay glued to their screens, often neglecting other work such as visits to customers. Some managers even use IM to convene impromptu conferences outside of normal office...
Other doctors are forming their own insurance vehicles. Lewis Sharps, former president of the Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society, has applied to start a doctor-owned self-insuring group that will write policies only for orthopedic surgeons, in hopes of better managing risks and keeping court judgments and rates...
Since April, Wamba had been travelling in the continent working on his second book, about the African youth movement and its growth within the troubled continent. He also had plans to write about the women’s emancipation movement in Africa...
...books, publishing in France still enjoys a mystique rivaling that of cinema. Authors like Bernard-Henri Lévy and 2001 Goncourt prizewinner Jean-Christophe Rufin are megacelebrities, and book-themed talk shows are standard TV fare. Notes Pierre Assouline, editor of Lire magazine: "The French have always felt writing was the noblest form of communication, and most honest kind of reflection. To write is to live, but to be published is to exist before the world." The rentrée littéraire is the high point of the publishing year, a sort of textual Cannes that this fall...