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...would probably be hard for Apple's products to sell well in a really harsh economy even on the strength of a powerful brand, especially if there is evidence that all the company's competitors are being pounded. A brand may be worth a lot, but when almost everyone has less money than they did a year ago, potential owners become aspirants. Apple products have the potential disadvantage that they are comparatively expensive...
...market has probably hit a point where a lot of good news is out and some bad news is almost certainly on the way. Most of the good news is about the chances that the financial markets can be fixed. Most of the bad news is likely to be that unemployment is getting worse. With a balance that delicate, the stock market needs every one of its major sectors to keep up if the S&P is going to be up another 25% by mid-year...
This fall, he will leave Columbia, where he as taught for almost three decades, to take over as chair of Harvard’s Department of Literature and Comparative Literature. He says he hopes to encourage concentrators to study world languages and to increase the offerings of world literature courses to undergraduates...
...President's world, everything is collapsing - markets, housing prices, confidence. In the First Lady's world, everything is soaring - spirits, ballet dancers, ambitions. In Barack's world, expressions of optimism are carefully qualified. In Michelle's world, expressions of pessimism are almost unthinkable. For Barack, the big question is how he is going to save the world from economic and nuclear Armageddon. For Michelle, the big question is who made her darling cardigan with the sequins and the argyle print. (See photos of Michelle Obama's fashion...
...world is vastly changed from that of 1949, when the U.S. and Europe agreed to pool their military resources and combine to resist any westward encroachment by the Soviet Union. Most of today's leaders of NATO member states were not yet born when the Alliance was forged, and almost two decades after the Soviet Union's collapse, military analysts see the Alliance as being mired in an identity crisis. "It's entirely unclear what NATO's reason for existence is after 1989 [the year the Berlin Wall came down]," says Tarak Barkawi, a senior lecturer in international security...