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...telling that to Andy Ross. The 59-year-old Californian has placed a $3.7 million bet--his house, his entire life savings and hefty loans from the bank and his brother--on conventional wisdom's being wrong. The owner since 1977 of Cody's Books, a Berkeley, Calif., institution that was tear-gassed in the '60s and bombed in 1989 in response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character...
...Preparing for a pandemic is challenging because it is difficult to strike a balance between acting and overreacting. President Bush and the rest of the world's leaders need to rise above panic and politics. Like Gerald Ford in 1976, they can't be afraid to make the wrong choice for the right reasons...
...causes ranging from the environment to the antiwar movement, Decker, an incumbent who is campaigning for her fourth term, dismisses accusations by challengers that the current council is outdated.“When you’re a challenger, you want to point out everything that’s wrong,” Decker says. “But the truth is, according to polls we’ve conducted, most people feel good about the way the city is run.”Tiara Quinn, one of Decker’s god-daughters and a veteran campaigner...
...what exactly are companies doing wrong? After a spate of antidiscrimination lawsuits in the 1960s and '70s, corporations initiated minority-hiring programs that have resulted in remarkably integrated workplaces. Many large companies sponsor affinity groups and provide tools to help minorities and women navigate their careers. But few minority women make it into the highest ranks--held back, some say, by unique challenges. According to the 1,000 minority women executives interviewed for the study (some of whom TIME spoke with for this article, along with others who did not participate), most corporations don't yet understand those women...
...original flyer there were some mistakes, but, the thing is, I went to a public source, the Bank of America’s website, and the Bank of America got it wrong, and what [the assessor] was pointing out was the errors that the Bank of America made,” he says. Such inconsistencies, he adds, are rooted in a lack of civic transparency...