Article: OPINION: It's Time for Corporations to Stop Paying Danegeld.

By Eamonn Butler, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 16--You might have thought that by now business would have learnt to stand up for itself against the daily assaults of political correctness and pseudo-science. But no: it just hires more people to be nice to its assailants.

So many nice guys, indeed, that in Britain they even have their own trade association -- the Corporate Responsibility Group. And, at this week's annual get-together, they will listen ever-so-politely to various environmentalistas and stakeholdeurillas who never have many kind words to say about their bosses. Talk about clutching vipers to your ...

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