by Deca | Jul 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Michael P. Regan, BloombergBusiness, July 15, 2015 The corporate-earnings reporting season reveals which companies would feel at home in Garrison’ Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, an idyllic small town where “all the women are strong, all the men are...
by Deca | Jul 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce, ProPublica, July 13, 2015 It’s conventional wisdom that there are “good” and “bad” hospitals — and that selecting a good one can protect patients from the kinds of medical errors that injure or kill...
by Deca | Jul 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Niki Kitsantonis, The New York Times, July 13, 2015 Panos Kammenos, the right-wing coalition partner of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece, told reporters on Monday that his party would not support the agreement reached in Brussels, citing...
by Deca | Jul 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
CBC News, July 10, 2015 A top-ranking U.S. civil servant – Katherine Archuleta, director of the federal Office of Personnel Management – bowed to bipartisan pressure and abruptly quit on Friday after hackers infiltrated her agency and stole sensitive...
by Deca | Jul 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, July 10, 2015 We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel’s moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity. Shockingly, in Ms....
by Deca | Jul 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
James Risen, The New York Times, July 10, 2015 The Central Intelligence Agency’s health professionals repeatedly criticized the agency’s post-Sept. 11 interrogation program, but their protests were rebuffed by prominent outside psychologists who lent...