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Laurel T. Ulrich, author of ‘Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History,’ is the 300th Anniversary University Professor...
Time abroad--especially in China and India--is becoming as "essential as an M.B.A. for a top executive's résumé," says Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, co-author with C. Perry Yeatman of Get Ahead by Going Abroad. The only problem is that the go-go growth and business style of emerging Asia can get into an executive's blood--so much so that he or she finds it hard to go back to headquarters. "I get a lot of résumés from executives just as they're being called back from an assignment," says Benjamin Zhai, head of China...
...endless series of feints designed to keep his opponents off balance--and the foreign aid handouts flowing so the country stays fed. "The North Korean economic approach has always been to extract resources from outsiders," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of The North Korean Economy. "It's like what they say about champagne: In success, you feel like you deserve it. In failure, you need...
...trend is giving rise to a curious new customer at the local supply store. Dude farmers, says Carol Ekarius, author of Hobby Farm: Living Your Rural Dream for Pleasure and Profit, are "picking up bales of hay in their Jaguar." Amusing as that is, the results are not all good. Hobby farmers drive up land prices in hot areas. They also raise big-picture concerns about total farm output. Hobbyists get far less yield per acre than the lifetime pros, and in times of food shortage they would further crimp the supply, usda officials warn...
...included explanations of why he will stay in Paris when the government and other rebel leaders sit down to talk in Tripoli. "To go ahead without him is very, very difficult," says Alex de Waal, program director of the Social Science Research Council in New York City and co-author of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War. "It will certainly undermine the legitimacy of whatever is agreed there...