Somalia: Getting Country Wrong - a History of International Misreading

[African Arguments] Writing a book about Somalia has become a cotton industry of late. Countless pundits with little or no experience of the country try to reduce its extraordinarily intricate conflict to images of destruction, decay and death.

Oce Brings Advantages of Production Black & White Printing to GlobalSoft Digital Solutions

TRUMBULL, Conn. , Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Oce , a Canon Group company and international leader in digital document management, today announced that GlobalSoft Digital Solutions recently installed ...

The Hartford Reports Fourth Quarter 2011 Financial Results

The Hartford reported net income of $127 million, or $0.24 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2011 compared with $619 million, or $1.24 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Sitel Names Don Berryman President of the Americas

Sitel, a leading customer care outsourcing provider, today announced that Don Berryman has been named President of Sitel’s Americas region. Berryman joined Sitel in February of 2009 as the leader of Sitel’s Global Sales and Marketing organization.

Alpine Access Leads Industry with Highest Security Standards

Virtual Contact Center Achieves PCI DSS Level 1 Version 2.0 Certification; Marks 4 Years as a Level 1 Compliant Service ProviderDenver, Colorado (PRWEB) February 07, 2012 Alpine Access, the premier provider of virtual contact center solutions and services, today announced it has again met the highest levels of security as outlined by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS ...

API Announces New VP of Business Partner Sales

Randy Mueller has joined API Outsourcing as Vice President of Partner SalesSt. Paul, MN (PRWEB) January 11, 2012 API Outsourcing, Inc. (API) (http://www.apifao.com), a leading finance and accounting outsourcing (FAO) provider of state-of-the-art document management, accounts-payable processing solutions and billing, today announced that Randy Mueller has joined API Outsourcing as Vice ...

Author finds race, class in nanny roles

In the mid-1990s and early 2000’s, Cameron MacDonald combed the playgrounds of neighborhoods from Brookline to Weston to Sudbury. A sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, MacDonald was looking for nannies and the typically high-earning mothers for whom they worked. Ultimately, MacDonald interviewed 30 working mothers and 50 nannies in the course of her research. Her new book ...