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Commentary: Why not prohibit smoking?

Cigarettes kill; 400,000 people die prematurely every year from smoking. When we analyze the harm from drugs, there is no doubt that cigarettes are the worst.

Robert McNamara, ex-defense secretary, dies

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a key architect of the U.S. war in Vietnam under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, has died at age 93, according to his family.

Commentary: What Obama's 'best and brightest' should know

The Obama administration starts its work today with the highest of ambitions.

Commentary: Can Obama lead another New Deal?

Students here in Cambridge watched in horror in September 2005 as they saw lines of desperate people snaked round the convention center and the Superdome in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Fortune: Signing too many all-stars

"Some of the worst teams I've ever seen have been those where everybody was a potential CEO," says David Nadler, chief of the Mercer Delta consulting firm, who has worked with executive teams at top global companies for more than 30 years. "If there's a zero-sum game called succession going on, it's very difficult to have an effective team."

CNNMoney: Wolfowitz tapped for World Bank

President Bush said Wednesday that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is his choice to be president of the World Bank.

Fortune: HOW TO SPREAD POTOMAC FEVER Corporate chiefs think government officials are forced to make unreasonable sacrifices. The CEOs' so

CALL IT THE Beltway brain drain. A Federal Reserve governor quits to take a more lucrative job in private industry. Key technocrats eject from NASA. Leadership positions remain unfilled seven month...

Fortune: WHY DEFENSE IS MISMANAGED Political pressures and hidden agendas keep getting in the way of the ''strength-maximizing decision.'

Defense spending -- an entry of close to $300 billion in the U.S. budget -- is a peculiarly difficult subject to think about. People trying to figure out whether the country is spending the right a...

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