Don’t you expect better from people who are over the age of 18 and happen to be heads of publicly traded companies? Don’t you expect some measure of dignity and restraint? I do. So when I see a public figure like Carol Bartz, who was fired by Yahoo the other day, whining all over the [...]
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Posted: 15 November 2010 in Current eventsTake the world’s smallest political quiz and find out where you fall on the political spectrum. The quiz says I am Liberal (which in Europe actually means “economic conservative”).
Reverse brain drain: “More skilled immigrants are giving up their American dreams to pursue careers back home, raising concerns that the U.S. may lose its competitive edge in science, technology and other fields. ”What was a trickle has become a flood,” says Duke University’s Vivek Wadhwa, who studies reverse immigration. Wadhwa projects that in the next five [...]
* * * * * The documentary “September Issue” about Anna Wintour and Vogue Magazine is coming out at the end of this month. I can’t wait to see it.
It’s funny how American conservatives get all it all wrong about the British NHS or any other country’s “socialized” medicine. They’ve been calling it a disaster but it works quite well, as Stephen Amidon, an American writer living in Britain, recently wrote in Salon: “This, I learned, is what the NHS is about — common decency. [...]
