Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Survey: Office Workers More Mobile, Use Tech to Work Around the Clock
"America's white collar workforce is increasingly mobile and readily uses laptops and smartphones to do their jobs at all hours of the day, at home and even during their time off the company clock, according to a Unisys-IDC survey of 2,820 respondents, including 40% aged 35 or younger."
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
CEO Tenure, Stock Gains Often Go Hand-in-Hand
"Even as the average chief executive's tenure shrinks, a cadre of CEOs is beating the odds for corner-office stays. Nearly all run companies that have outperformed the stock market for years. Excluding founders, 28 CEOs of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index have held office more than 15 years, according to an analysis by recruiters Spencer Stuart for The Wall Street Journal. The typical S&P 500 CEO has held the title about 6.6 years."
Cost of the Queen: Less Than $1 Per Person a Year
"Accounts published Monday by Buckingham Palace reveal the total public cost of supporting the monarchy was 38.2 million pounds ($57.8 million) in the year to March 31, the equivalent of 62 pence (94 cents) per person. The total is more than 3 million pounds less than in 2008-2009."
Survey Ranks Obama 15th Best President, Bush Among Worst
"President Obama ranks 15th out of 44 in a poll of the best and worst presidents while former President George W. Bush earns a place in the bottom five, according to the Siena College Research Institute's recent survey of 238 presidential scholars released Thursday."
Monday, July 5, 2010
Author Interview on Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Thomas Nelson), author Eric Metaxas uncovers the person behind such Christian classics as The Cost of Discipleship and Life Together. CT editor at large Collin Hansen spoke with Metaxas about Bonhoeffer's life and legacy."
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Amid Abuse Scandal, Focus of Church Drifted Away
"Before he became pope, Benedict XVI held a critical decision-making position in the Vatican that had authority over abuse cases, but did not assert it for many years."
Amid Abuse Scandal, Focus of Church Drifted Away
"But church documents and interviews with canon lawyers and bishops cast that 2001 decision and the future pope’s track record in a new and less flattering light. The Vatican took action only after bishops from English-speaking nations became so concerned about resistance from top church officials that the Vatican convened a secret meeting to hear their complaints — an extraordinary example of prelates from across the globe collectively pressing their superiors for reform, and one that had not previously been revealed."
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