Los Angeles Times (July 11)
A rift is growing between the United States and Germany, “which largely sees Snowden as a hero, particularly for his revelations about the extent of American surveillance in Germany.” A recent poll shows “a mere 27% of Germans regard the U.S. as trustworthy, and a majority view it as an aggressive power.”
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Financial Times (February 27)
Yahoo’s chief executive, Marissa Mayer, will require employees who previously worked from home to come to the office. “The lesson to draw from Ms Mayer’s whip-cracking – in Silicon Valley, of all places – is that this is an age of harder work. From intense teamwork at the top to monitoring and surveillance at the bottom, managers are squeezing more from employees than they previously would have dared.”
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