For The New York Times, Corporate Democracy Lags at Home

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:35 PM EDT (American.com)

The newspaper argues for more shareholder democracy, but its chairman defends extra rights for the Times company's family owners.

business, wall-street, journalism, class-b, new-york-times-company, institutional-shareholder-services, gretchen-morgenson

A new Einstein Biography Reveals His Human Side

Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:14 AM EDT (American.com)

He was once a young Turk anxious for the approval of his elders, thunderously predicting that his doctoral advisor, Alfred Kleiner, "won't dare reject my dissertation, otherwise the short-sighted man is of little use to me" (it was rejected).

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Is Al Gore "crazy like a fox"?

Seeded on Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:46 PM EDT (American.com)

The vice-president's extremism on climate change might make strategic sense--if it delays action on the issue until Democrats can take the White House.

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