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A vibrant democracy depends on debate, and McCain and Obama are light-years apart on a variety of issues, including Iraq, tax policy, abortion, immigration, the role of government in our lives and many other critical issues. Presidential elections are an opportunity for Americans to participate in this debate, and it's good to have candidates who don't straddle the middle of the road. After so many years of political acrimony, Obama and McCain will raise the level of rhetoric and get us thinking again.

Boeing vs. Airbus: The Plot Thickens

Richard L. Aboulafia is vice president of analysis at Teal Group Corporation. He manages consulting projects in the commercial and military aircraft fields and analyzes broader defense and aerospace trends. He has advised numerous companies, including most prime and many second- and third-tier contractors in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He also writes and edits Teal Groups World Military and Civil Aircraft Briefing, a forecasting tool covering over 135 aircraft programs and markets. Before joining the Teal Group in 1990, Mr. Aboulafia analyzed the jet engine market at Janes Information Group, served as an aerospace industry consultant for an international trade advisory company, and supported research projects at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Aboulafia writes about aviation and defense and has published numerous articles in Aviation Week and Space Technology, Financial Times, Military Technology, Avmark Aviation Economist, Janes Intelligence Review, and the Asian Wall Street Journal.

Organic, Inc. Hires Minna Rhee as Senior Vice President and General ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Organic, Inc., a leading digital communications agency, today announced the appointment of Minna Rhee to Senior Vice President and General Manager of the agency's New York office. Minna joins Organic from Razorfish and will leverage fifteen years of business, marketing and strategy consulting experience to lead Organic's teams and clients in New York. She will report to Mark Kingdon, Organic's CEO, and replace Adam Turinas who will be focusing full-time as the Senior Vice President, Client Engagement responsible for the Bank of America account. Adam will also continue to report to Mark Kingdon, CEO of Organic.

"Our New York office has experienced tremendous momentum over the last year, with several new clients and an infusion of fresh talent," said Mark Kingdon, CEO of Organic.

Stuart Dixon, architectural historian

He researched and wrote a report on the evolution and significance of the nation's interstate highway system to guide the Federal Highway Administration in future repairs to the roads.

Stuart was senior architectural historian for Rummel Klepper & Kahl, an engineering firm in Baltimore, at the time of his death. From 1998 through mid-2007, he held the same position with the Louis Berger Group Inc., an international environmental-engineering consulting firm in Washington, D.C., where he completed more than 100 historical survey, evaluation and documentation projects.

His historic analysis of farmsteads and railroad structures to be demolished by construction of a proposed federal penitentiary in Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pa., won several national awards for Berger.

"Stuart was one of the finest architectural historians I have had the pleasure to work with," said Kay Simpson, vice president of cultural resources for Berger.

Attorney General's office searches Celis' office, grabs financial ...

CORPUS CHRISTI — Investigators from the Texas Attorney General's Office served a search warrant Friday on the law offices of CGT International Law Group, removing boxes of financial documents, including tax returns.

Golden Hope Mines Ltd.: Frank Candido Joins Board, Options Granted ...

Frank Candido is currently a principal/partner of Optimus Asset Management Inc. ("Optimus"), a Montreal based company that he co-founded in 1994. Optimus is a firm specializing in the financing/consulting of early stage and Micro Cap companies, both private and public.

Mr. Candido has played an extensive role in the restructuring of Golden Hope Mines Ltd. through his extensive contacts in the financial industry, both with institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Mr. Candido is a graduate of Concordia University and McGill University. He has successfully completed his CSC (Canadian Securities Course) and his Series 3 (United States) as a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA).

"We welcome Mr. Candido to the board and as an officer of our growing company. Frank has been an essential part of the restructuring of Golden Hope.

We rage at Hain and Conway but miss the real profligacy

Instead, expensive agency accountants or outside consultants were doing the job. Consultants were also employed whenever difficult or unpopular decisions had to be made. "Managers didn't want to tackle vested interests themselves; it was too uncomfortable. But they didn't listen to us, because we were nobodies. So instead we had teams of people, some on £5,000 a day, repeating our views back to management, and getting hundreds of thousands of pounds for it."

A consultant who earns more than half a million a year, much of it from public-sector work, confirms that very often what his teams do is quite unnecessary. "We're brought in to knock heads together, as in the merger of prisons and probation services. And it makes anxious bosses feel better to say, look, we spent a few million on consulting and reporting, so the conclusions must be right.