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One of the board members of a new parent company, Independent Newspapers UK, is Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Washington Post (Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong and Murdoch nemesis, is also a member).
The parent company recently acquired by merger the world's largest insurance broker, Alexander & Alexander Services Inc., and also a large British broker called Bain Hogg Group plc.
With the one-two punch of items critical of Java in Shuman's piece and James Surowiecki's column, "Culture Wars," I have to close my eyes and clap for Tinkerbell to believe that Slate remains independent and exercises untrammeled judgment on what points of view to present on issues directly affecting its parent corporation.
In honor of our recent arrival become a proud parent of the Indianapolis Zoo's newest African Elephant, "Amali" which means hope.
The story says that via standardized tests and parent interviews, the study concluded children whose mothers worked during the first three years after giving birth were not significantly different from those with unemployed mothers.