Month: July 2005

The Bear’s Lair: The effects of ongoing terror

The second round of terrorist attacks on London’s transport system Thursday raised a disturbing spectacle of continued, albeit low level, terrorist attacks in the world’s major cities. Such attacks, even taken together, might produce fewer casualties than a single huge outrage such as that of September 11, 2001, but could have more pernicious long term […]

The Bear’s Lair: Career advice for the Worthingtons

“Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington” caroled Noel Coward in an inspired 1947 piece of career advice. The McKinsey Global Institute study “The Emerging Global Labor Market” presented at the Institute for International Economics Wednesday by the Institute’s Director Diana Farrell leads unquestionably to new advice for the Worthington family (if they […]

The Bear’s Lair: The real Supreme Court issue

Discussion following Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement has centered on her potential successor’s views on abortion and wrongful imprisonment, the two areas in which the Angry Left is most hostile to the George W. Bush administration. Yet in reality there is a much more crucial question from the right: what is that successor’s […]

The Bear’s Lair: The gangster corporate culture

Richard Scrushy walked scot fee from the near collapse of Health South, while Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco, Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom and John Rigas of Adelphia have received or will receive prison sentences of well over a decade for their crimes. 1990’s Business’s combination of lack of ethical scruples, excessive rewards and excessive penalties for […]