This is Google’s core philosophy about human beings, according to Laslo Bock, Google’s head of people operation (human relations) in his recent book, “Work Rules!”
It was the most gut-wrenching email I have ever received. My mom went in for her annual screening and the results were iffy. After another couple tests, we found out she had breast cancer.
It was the most gut-wrenching email I have ever received.
43 Chipotle restaurants were closed in Washington and Oregon after an E.coli outbreak.
43 Chipotle restaurants were closed in Washington and Oregon after an E.coli outbreak.
History has a way of repeating itself, but never in exactly the same way. After Chinese President Xi Jin Ping visited the Pacific Northwest and Washington, D.C., he flew to London where he was given a lavish red carpet treatment by the British government.
Do the voters pamphlets take forever to get through?
Do the voters’ pamphlets take forever to read through?
Freedom! What a wonderful power—or is it? I considered that paradox after speaking with one of my Chinese students from Shanghai. I had asked him what had struck him most about being in America. His answer was, “all the freedom we enjoy in this country.” It was such a contrast to his country’s control under “socialist capitalism”.
Striving to be as accurate and as fair as possible in our reporting should be the number one goal of any practicing journalist. But minimizing harm should be a close second.
This weeks editorial cartoon is by Frank Shiers, Jr.
Earlier this month, The Economist, the renowned British weekly, ran an editorial advocating an end to the U.S. dollar’s supremacy as the world’s chief currency. The magazine offered several economic motives and one supremely political one. “For how long,” its editors wrote, “will countries be ready to tie their financial systems to America’s fractious and dysfunctional politics?”
‘Tis the season for charge and countercharge, smear for smear, for endorsing candidates through letters to the editor, for articles from pundits like me, pointing all this out. Usually, the tactics of character assassination and ethics violations are used at the state and national level, but this year’s local contests are following the higher levels of government at least in their viciousness.