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...that American interests are best served when Europe is divided, and that the U.S. is well advised to cherry-pick the European states that support it - and ignore the rest. "We should be agnostic, not cheerleaders, about the faith-based project of European integration," says John Hulsman, a neoconservative analyst for the Heritage Foundation in Washington. But that's a stingy view of what the E.U.'s projection of soft power has achieved. The goal of E.U. membership has compelled Turkey to abolish the death penalty, rein in its military and grant cultural rights to the Kurds. That same prospect...
...subscribers, like lunch, don't come free. Murdoch began spending heavily in October on marketing and advertising, jacking up the cost of acquiring each customer to $430 from $387. "The marketing costs were higher than people expected," says analyst Kingsley Wilson of Investec. Subscriber-acquisition cost, says James, is "not particularly a measurement that we are concerned with...
...more conservative options like bonds and cash. Yet often they don't. Enter life-cycle funds. Investors pick a fund based on the year they plan to retire and let a professional manager do the rest, gradually swapping investments as the years go by. Michael Porter, senior research analyst at investment tracker Lipper Inc., calls it "fast-food investing...
...author and political analyst Kevin Phillips suggested that candidates need not be so coy, that discussing white anger over the verdict is perfectly legitimate: "The question is whether raising issues like affirmative action or immigration is something that is automatically defined as appealing to the worst in people. If you think people are justified in thinking affirmative action has turned into quotas and that immigration has been mishandled, then people are entitled to be angry about...
...with her inability to deliver the profits she promised, the board was stung by her refusal to make changes or relinquish operating responsibility in HP's floundering computer business. "She played a brinkmanship game and didn't realize the other side wouldn't budge," says Rob Enderle, a tech analyst in San Jose, Calif. "It's a game she's used to playing. She bet wrong...