Wal-Mart sure has a funny way of winning over its critics, said Daniel Gross in Slate.com. Battered by charges that it exploits its army of employees with poverty-level wages and skimpy benefits, the retail behemoth last week launched an aggressive new public relations campaign. Chief executive officer H. Lee Scott vowed that Wal-Mart would
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