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...This isn't a matter of dress sense. Gul's nomination (and his wife's attire) has laid bare Turkey's deep divisions over the separation of religion and government. The protest was part of a much broader revolt by Turkey's self-described "secularists" against a popularly elected Islamic-leaning government that has held power-with considerable success-since November 2002. An ad hoc coalition of opposition parties, the military and parts of the judiciary, often referred to in Turkey as the "secular establishment," has in recent days derailed the presidential selection process in a standoff that underscores...
...sources more than 60% of its products in the region, more than half of that from China, compared with Inditex's 34%. "H&M has been in Asia as a manufacturer for 30 years," says retail analyst Henrik Schultz of Danske Equities in Copenhagen. "It has a broader choice of suppliers, and strong relationships already in place. For perhaps the first time, it can set the timetable for trends...
After four months of digging around Siemens, Hershman says he is suffering from déjŕ vu. He compares Siemens' dilemma to General Electric's when Jack Welch was forced to confront similar issues, and he believes the challenge for German industry is much broader. "Germany is now not unlike the U.S. in the 1970s, when there was a host of big corruption cases," he says. For Siemens, the end of the bad news is far from over. As Kleinfeld was making his parting statements, the SEC launched an official investigation into the company. And Siemens conceded that the amount...
Summers then asked rhetorically whether it should be “shocking or disturbing” that those girls choose to enter fields broader than math, given their “superior verbal abilities...
...that reason, the Harvard University Police Department has carefully reviewed the situation at the Forum. The University is persuaded that more could have been done in the circumstances to apprise the students that they were in jeopardy of arrest. Without condoning the students’ behavior at the Forum, broader principles have led the University to request that the criminal charges against the students be dropped...