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...about their own performance and believe that they have taken sufficient steps to respond to the crisis. They often tend to be too inward-looking in their forecasts, relying on their own 2008 experience rather than fully assessing the changing external environment: managers do not like to create or accept negative plans. Consequently, although taking action, companies have not adopted the steps either to protect themselves from the worst effects of the downturn or to prepare for the upturn...
...Developing countries like China pushed wealthier nations to accept tough short-term carbon emission targets, demanding cuts of at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. But developed nations demurred, refusing to commit to new cuts now, even though their existing commitments would lead to a reduction of only 4% to 14% below 1990 levels...
...attendance of the celebrity pair, who were reportedly coming to see Haven accept a designation as the International Relations Council’s Senior Honorary Advisor for 2009, was “90 percent certain” yesterday morning, according to International Relations On Campus co-director Courtney L. Blair ’10. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Sorry. So here's the deal: Actor James Haven came to the Kirkland Junior Common Room yesterday to accept a designation as the International Relations Council’s Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition's Senior Honorary Advisor for 2009. Whatever that is. FlyBy isn't sure either. But there's more: Haven's sister, actress Angelina Jolie, and her partner Brad Pitt were scheduled to attend the event so that they could see good old Jimmy get his award. Too bad they never showed. Figure out what happened (with more pics of Haven chilling at John Harvard?...
...Nations - in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, spoke candidly with TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Tim McGirk about the obstacles to peace. Earlier, Blair had met with Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish new Israeli premier, who says he will keep talking peace but left open the question of whether Israel would accept a Palestinian state. "One thing I learned," says Blair, "is that you simply just don't give up." (See pictures of Tony Blair's 10 years as British Prime Minister...