In
Search of Our Future - Who will speak for the
common good?
We are a people in a quandary about the present.
We are a people in search of our future. We
are a people in search of a national community….
Many fear the future. Many are distrustful of
their leaders and believe that their voices....
An
Artificial Poverty - Time to commercialize the
creative industries
At the beginning of June, delegates from some
45 countries were preparing to descend on London
for London Calling, one of the world’s
biggest events in the music business. From June
18 to 20, the delegates....
Obama
braces for race-based ads
A presidential candidate who's named Hussein and wears
a turban? A building that's called the White House
but run by a black guy?
Those political images and ideas already have found....
Grocery
CEO says discrimination suit settled
The grocery chain Kroger Co. has agreed to pay $16
million to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought
by 12 current and former employees, according to a
memo from the chain's chairman and chief executive....
That's a tricky question, according to the American
Medical Association whose members on Tuesday found
themselves opposing some government health heavyweights....
Stubborn
mortgage rates defy conventional wisdom
The Federal Reserve has aggressively cut interest
rates. Houses are sitting around unsold. The stage
appears to be set for mortgage rates to fall as lenders
compete to attract that scarce quarry: the well-qualified
home buyer....
Fuel
for thought: High oil prices can pay off
If $4-or-more-a-gallon gas is what we face this summer,
then it's time to find a way to handle it. Here's
one way to ease the pain: Invest in something that
benefits from high gasoline prices....
Biggest
jobless jump since '86 as Wall Street sinks
Pink slips piled up and jobs disappeared into thin
air in May as the nation's unemployment rate zoomed
to 5.5 percent in the biggest one-month jump in decades.
Wall Street swooned, and the White House said President
Bush was considering new proposals to revive the economy....
