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A rule of thumb on executives’ salaries: They aren’t overpaid if there’d be no company without them. Read >>
The sad lessons of 1919 are eloquent regarding today’s endlessly wretched situation in the Balkans. Read >>
Oklahoma’s “rightful capital” retains the tenacious spirit of its founders. Read >>
Jack Kennedy came into the White House determined to dismantle his Republican predecessor’s rigid, formal staff organization, in favor of a spontaneous, flexible, hands-on management style. Thirty years later, Bill Clinton seems determined to do the same thing. He would do well to remember that what it got JFK was the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War. Read >>
THE STRANGE FORGOTTEN LIFE OF AMERICA’S OTHER BEN FRANKLIN, BY AN AUTHOR SO FASCINATED THAT HE’S WRITING A NOVEL ABOUT HIM. Read >>
BORN IN SLAVERY AND RAISED IN ITS PAINFUL AFTERMATH TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AMERICAN ICONS, SHE HAS BEEN MADE TO ENCOMPASS LOVE AND GUILT AND RIDICULE AND WORSHIP, AND STILL SHE LIVES ON. Read >>
Aunt Jemima moves to the mantelpiece Read >>
From the last peacetime maneuvers in North Carolina to the rubble of Tokyo, a young Army officer took it all in and gave it all back in crisp, increasingly confident drawings Read >>
The great Louisiana bluesman made his first recordings inside Angola Penitentiary. Read >>

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