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...most successful companies have been small-cap players operating in niche markets or regions. Lionbridge boasts a strong reputation in certifying and testing software for non-English users. Berlitz GlobalNET, based in New York City, is adept at consumer marketing. SDL International, based outside London, and Logos, based in Modena, Italy, cater to a wide range of European clients. In Asia, firms like Tokyo's Toin Corp. and Hong Kong's Real Idea have established fast-growing enterprises for clients such as Kyocera and Sony, respectively. "No vendor can cover all languages," says Ric Ginsberg, a vice president at Oracle...
BRITAIN Not everyone is James Bond, but MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign) are very good at human intelligence, notably in Britain's former Middle East colonies. Fighting Irish terrorists has helped agents become adept at tracking other terrorist cells within Britain...
...American point of view, and announced that the President would make his case for a continued war in Afghanistan in a nationally televised address Thursday. But Ross's fluency in Arabic is a tremendous asset in making the case to middle-class Muslims and countering bin Laden's adept exploitation of anti-American grievances in the Muslim world...
...Taliban can see him easily. In the past, he sat on his office carpet and received visitors. However, since being elevated to the status of Amirul Momineen, or Commander of the Faithful, he sits on a raised platform. He has learned to drive his luxury Land Cruiser and is adept at handling satellite phones and walkie-talkies. Inflexible and a believer in miracles, Omar is fond of telling followers how some of his dreams of Taliban military victories have come true. He says the Almighty will save him and his people from U.S. military strikes. This...
...Secretary General is often described simply as that of the world's diplomat-in-chief, charged with making peace and preventing war in situations where simple government-to-government diplomacy has failed. Annan has proved singularly adept on that front - indeed, the ringing endorsements of his second term and complete absence of hostility from any quarter speaks to his almost implausible popularity across all geopolitical boundaries. Of course his immediate predecessors - Boutros-Gali, Javier Perez de Cuellar and Kurt Waldheim - all performed the diplomatic role with dour sobriety, Annan has reinvented the role in keeping with the founding principles...