CAMDEN, S.C. – They say our lives go on after death only as long as the last person who remembers us. Except for a few notables of history, this means we live for a couple or three generations before photographs fade and family stories are forgotten.But what about people who die with no ...
Leadership is a topic that touches boundaries far beyond any particular industry, profession, or field of interest. This past year, I ended up spending about an hour each evening watching different attorney-oriented television series, like “Boston Legal” and “The Practice.” ...
The CEO of British car company once complained in my earshot that his fancy jeweled Swiss watch always seemed to run a little behind. No one could fix it. And so, when he met the executive of a Swiss watch company at a conference in Geneva, he asked for advice. “It’s always five minutes ...
The Washington County Chamber of Commerce developed its economic development plan, “Washington Forward,” as a straightforward initiative to highlight areas of importance to our business community and provide direction to our elected leaders as they consider policies and actions that might ...
This past summer, the U.S. Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, effectively ended affirmative action in higher education. In doing so, it overturned decades of precedents, which is not particularly conservative, but was entirely expected.The court was not acceding to a groundswell ...
Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”Does this sentence constitute ...
