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		<title>Apple Board was Quiet on Succession&#8230; Good!</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/apple-board-was-quiet-on-succession-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Davis of the Millstein Center at Yale, as well as the late Jerry York, and others, are committing my pet peeve in business: putting shareholders first. I am extremely &#8220;classical&#8221; in terms of what&#8217;s important about a business, a company, of any sort. In my view, the most important thing by far is what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=68&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keystone Cops score big success in NYC terror bomber nab!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 20:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were so many near-misses in the handling of this whole attempted car-bombing event, it should be shocking. But somehow it just seems par for the course. And yet Eric Holder says he was &#8220;never in any fear that that we were in danger of losing him [the suspect, Mr. Shahzad],&#8221; and Janet Napolitano thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=61&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s iPad changes everything in media – old and new</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are tons of articles already claiming that the iPad either will or will not &#8220;save&#8221; the &#8220;print industry.&#8221; That&#8217;s already largely a misnomer. The real distinguishing feature we&#8217;re talking about here is not whether the media is printed or not; it&#8217;s that at traditional media sources such as print magazines, newspapers, and some television [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=58&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Done-in by popular wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When just-in-time becomes just-too-late I used to work in the corporate offices of a major fashion mailorder retailer. One of the most important things in that industry is to make sure that you manufacture enough product to meet demand, but not so much that you&#8217;ll have tons left to liquidate later. If you&#8217;re designing an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=55&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calder to Japan: Hurry up and Wait?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lesson in ineffective diplomacy Today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal article, &#8220;Rise of a New Era in Japan,&#8221; carries this most vexing and perplexing quote from well-regarded Asia scholar (and former special adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan) Kent Calder: It is crucial to wait and see right now. I&#8217;d say at least until the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=52&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Sanford&#8217;s Odyssey Begins Now</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/governor-sanfords-odyssey-begins-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Wall Street Journal article titled &#8220;Sanford Odyssey Ends in Tears,&#8221; poses a challenging assertion. That the odyssey somehow ends with his Great Confession from the South Carolina State House. When I look at the picture on page 1, I can see how that conclusion could be drawn. He says, &#8220;What I did was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=47&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Ballmer&#8217;s &#8220;Adam Smith&#8221; Idiocy at Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/steve-ballmers-adam-smith-idiocy-at-microsoft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, was quoted in the recent Wall Street Journal article, &#8220;Is Bing the Thing?&#8221; with this: &#8220;I think most of the world thinks it would be great to have more-dynamic competition in search.&#8221; Oh, really, Steve? Would you like to hear what I think? Well, I&#8217;m gonna tell you anyway. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=44&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Felony Stupidity&#8221; in the White House Military Office</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/felony-stupidity-in-the-white-house-military-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I didn&#8217;t coin the term, but &#8220;felony stupidity,&#8221; as coined by former Homeland Security adviser Frances Townsend, certainly seems to fill the bill. It covers the possibility that the actions of Mr. Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, were simply the result of not having thought it through (this would be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=42&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have you voted yet? Our future is waiting.</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/have-you-voted-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmmm. It&#8217;s the night before the election. Actually, where I am, it&#8217;s already the wee hours of Tuesday September 4. There is so much at stake, the need to get out and vote seems so vital, and so obvious. But that&#8217;s because what I think is vitally and obviously needed is change. And change does [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=40&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans want women poor, pregnant and stupid?</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/republicans-want-women-poor-pregnant-and-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent editorial in the New York Sun compelled me to write the following Letter to the Editor. Whether or not it gets published therein, you have the opportunity to read it here. I hope that you&#8217;ll comment. Sir: I don&#8217;t often read the opinion pages of the newspaper, but yesterday found myself sitting on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=419173&amp;post=37&amp;subd=bitsworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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