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Mark Spelman, the head of Accenture's policy and corporate-affairs group, says the results are an indication of the growing complexity that managements the world over are now having to confront. "There's a realization that executives will have to deal with different dynamics going forward," Spelman says-an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Survey | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

New Orleanians are accustomed to grand promises and frequent disappointments, and we have developed a coping mechanism: an irreverence that often masks a profound cynicism.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad on the Mississippi? | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

Another reminder of that fact came on Jan. 9, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe officially elevated the Defense Agency to a cabinet-level ministry. Although the change is mostly symbolic, it gives more prestige to a defense establishment accustomed to keeping a low profile since the disasters of World War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Military by Any Other Name | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

Most Somalis have grown accustomed to such anarchic conditions. But what's ironic is that before the Islamists were expelled by the Ethiopians, they had managed to impose a semblance of law and order on the capital. During its six-month tenure, the Islamic Courts Union (I.C.U.), an alliance run...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Somalia | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

Are you generally positive or negative about Europe's progress since 1946? There has been a struggle between the negative and the positive, and we are deep in this fight at the moment. The real fight will not be between nations, but a struggle between fanaticism and democracy. Terrorists do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Imre Kertész | 1/9/2007 | See Source »

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