STRACKHOUSE: We’re seeing CEO Darwinism taking hold–a survival of the fittest. It’s a white-hot market for CEO talent, so highly qualified CEOs will move to more compelling opportunities. They don’t really work for the money anymore. It’s beyond that. It’s more about whether they like the work they’re doing and whether they are passionate about the company. If the board has to worry about retaining the CEO, then it hasn’t done a good job of structuring a package that is effective....

NEWSWEEK: How did you get into the human-smuggling business? Coyote: Our family was pretty small. There were only seven of us altogether. I finished high school when I was 20 years old and that was it, no more studying for me. My mom has always sold second-hand clothing that she brings over from the United States, and my dad buys and sells used cars. After I finished high school, a friend told me about a guy who gathered people together who wanted to head to the other side....

A video posted on Twitter by South Western Railway shows the rail route being flooded by water from the pipe. The railway is one of the busiest in the country, and thousands of customers were affected. According to BBC London Travel’s Twitter account, the pipe caused a number of road closures as well. Utility Thames Water told the BBC that the pipe was positioned in a field that was home to a pig....

(500 pages. Random House. $25) tells the gripping tale of the landmark Woburn lawsuit. Journalist Jonathan Harr was granted unprecedented access to Schlichtmann’s strategy sessions, witness preparation, meetings with the families, settlement negotiations and the 1986 trial. The result is a page turner as filled with greed, duplicity, heartache and bare-knuckle legal brinkmanship as any Grisham thriller (the movie rights went to Robert Redford), But unlike the justice-prevails endings of most legal fiction, “A Civil Action” portrays a system that one lawyer aptly describes as “Dante’s ninth circle....

In round three’s other blockbuster, a winless Melbourne Victory travel to rivals Adelaide United in a Friday night special at Adelaide Oval, while a disappointing Brisbane Roar host an impressive Newcastle Jets in a game that could shape the future of coach John Aloisi. Two of the competition’s most attacking teams, Perth and Central Coast, go head-to-head on Sunday night in what will likely be a goal fest and league leaders Melbourne City will hope to continue their solid start to the season against Wellington....

A former A-League player, who has placed numerous Japanese players with National Premier Leagues (NPL) clubs, has warned there remains a serious gap in terms of salary expectations between what clubs are willing to pay and what J.League players demand. Naoki Imaya, who played for New Zealand Knights in the inaugural A-League season and now runs his own football academy in Japan, is excited by Football Federation Australia’s (FFA) decision to restrict one import spot to players from other Asian Football Confederation (AFC) members from 2018-19....

I wish this day had never come. But on behalf of my abortion-providing family, I welcome you to the regretful state of politicized medicine. Each of you has now traversed an aspect, maybe two, of the crazy world that abortion providers slog through every day. To the front-line doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists—welcome to the realization that your work may kill you. Not because of your choices but because of the choices others have made....

A classic that, on rereading, disappointed: “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë. I had thought it was deep and full of painful unrequited love, but on rereading I think it’s a bunch of very drippy people who accept being bullied for no very good reason. title: “A Life In Books Jasper Fforde” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-11” author: “Alberta Flood” “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll. At the age of 7 or 8, I was swept away by Alice’s madcap escapades and respectful irreverence of established nursery characters and situations....

A Book You Always Return To: Samuel R. Delany’s “Dhalgren,” which best captures that late ’60s eruption that has shaped so much of what we call the Now. A Book You Hope Parents Will Read To Their Kids: Richard Adams’s “Watership Down,” which is about the very thing kids dream of: that something small can still be a hero.

The petitioner, the American Agriculture Movement, a group representing small family farmers, argues that if industry has to get rid of its ozone depleters, the government ought to clean up its act, too. Another concern is alumina, a byproduct of shuttle exhaust, which forms particles that facilitate chemical reactions leading to ozone depletion. Experts say that ammonium perchlorate has an ozone-depleting potential as high as other chemicals scheduled for phaseout by the year 2000....

San Francisco’s new library has opened in the midst of a coast-to-coast library boom. Cities are racing to rewire and even rethink their libraries, rounding up all the new tools they can afford to get ready for a new millennium. Even libraries in struggling communities are getting on board: last week Microsoft chairman Bill Gates unveiled a $10.5 million program called Libraries Online!, aimed at helping 41 North American libraries expand their electronic services....

Montesinos’s mistake was bugging his own office. A hidden camera caught him giving $15,000 to an opposition lawmaker. The Moralizing Front–one of whose leaders is Fujimori’s embittered ex-wife–got hold of the videotape and released it two weeks ago. Already under fire for apparently rigging last spring’s presidential election, Fujimori abruptly announced he would dismantle the SIN, resign his own office and call elections “as soon as possible.” Then the transition came to a jarring halt....

The weather event marked the first time that the National Weather Service office in New York has issued a flash flood emergency alert in the area, and the city entered a state of emergency early Thursday morning. The city’s infrastructure was not equipped to handle the severe weather: over the course of the storm, New York’s subway stations turned into rapids, cars began to float, and apartment buildings filled with water....

While U.S. officials acknowledge the mistake, they claim Germany has a bigger agenda than justice. James Thessin, the lawyer leading the U.S. delegation, thinks the German government’s lawsuit is a ruse to “litigate the law itself.” It’s a valid point. Most European nations find the death penalty barbaric–the recent execution of an Italian citizen and the impending death of a mentally retarded sexual offender in Texas sparked protests across the continent....

In the decade since, education has become a permanent fixture on the national agenda, no longer simply the purview of local districts. Two presidents made educational excellence a cornerstone of their campaigns. And the business community, weary of having to run its own remedial programs, joined the crusade for a bettertrained work force to compete in a global economy. On the local level, many states and districts have raised academic standards and instituted new testing programs....

Harvard cardiologist Paul Ridker, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, tested nearly 28,000 women for both LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and blood levels of a substance called C-reactive protein, or CRP, an indicator of arterial inflammation. After eight years, he tallied up heart attacks and strokes among the women. Adjusting for risk factors like smoking and diabetes, he found that high cholesterol increased the women’s heart-attack risk up to 1....

As the head of Mayor Tom Bradley’s Rebuild L.A. task force, Ueberroth last week began surveying the wreckage and feeling the heat. The city’s upheaval took a staggering toll: 54 people dead, 2,383 injured. Riot-related arrests–almost 17,000 by the weekend–overwhelmed the county legal system. Rampant looting and raging fires destroyed or seriously damaged an estimated 5,200 buildings, most of them businesses; losses will probably exceed $1 billion worth before the count is over....

The grand marble Supreme Court building is a few miles and a world away from the neighborhood where Sams grew up. But his life story might as well be exhibit A in a landmark gun-rights case the court will hear next spring. Dick Heller, a 65-year-old security guard who lives in a once drug-ridden D.C. neighborhood, challenged the city’s gun ban. With backing from a group of libertarian attorneys who had been searching for just the right gun case to bring before the Supreme Court, Heller argued the law violates his Second Amendment right to bear arms....