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...then to rebuild the country and to missionize. The thrust of their message is that Bosnia's comparatively secular Muslims have strayed from the true path. A book distributed by Active Islamic Youth, a group in Bosnia founded with Saudi aid, is called Beliefs That We Have to Correct. In a high-profile case last December, a Bosnian Muslim who claimed to be a member of Active Islamic Youth (the group denied it) murdered a Christian Croat father and his two daughters on Christmas Eve in what locals say was a hate crime. Saudi teachings, complains Mohammed Besic, a former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After 9: SAUDI ARABIA: Inside the Kingdom | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...psychographics movement is all about building better pigeonholes, and there is no single correct approach. But marketers agree that the old demographics-based categories are defective. "You can no longer use the previous generation as a model for today's generation," says Roger Brown, director of global research for the Principal Financial Group, the nation's largest firm that focuses on 401(k) retirement-plan administration. "Baby boomers are very different from their parents in terms of how they approach retirement. Even within this generation, there are key differences that are forcing us to look more closely at attitudinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Sell It to the Psyche | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...social norms approach is based on the assumption that many students think that their peers drink more than they actually do—and that this misperception leads students to drink more in order to “fit in.” Social norms marketing attempts to correct this misperception, with the expectation that students will then drink less. The U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies have funded social norms programs, as have some of the largest beer companies in the United States. Anheuser-Busch has pledged $5 million to support a Social Norms Resource Center...

Author: By Henry Wechsler, | Title: Social Norms Programs Fail | 9/12/2003 | See Source »

...times ahead, the European Central Bank (E.C.B.) in Frankfurt will adopt policies best suited for Germany, France and Italy rather than tiny Sweden. By ceding control of monetary policy to the E.C.B., he fears, it will be hard for Sweden to use the fiscal tools of government spending to correct the problem. But such abstractions are not foremost in voters' minds. The real opposition to the euro is political. The fright scenario is: the European Union will eventually adopt measures to harmonize taxes, which will mean a cutback in high-tax countries like Sweden. The government will respond by cutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Euro's Big Test | 9/7/2003 | See Source »

...deeply appreciated your article "The Cool Passion of Dr. Dean," but I must correct one thing. You said I seem to regard the use of U.S. military power with "a mixture of contempt and suspicion." I supported American military intervention in the first Gulf War and in Afghanistan, which I considered to be a matter of U.S. national security. I did not back President Bush's attack on Iraq because I thought that the American people were not being told the truth about the reasons for invading. I do not believe any President should be given blanket authority to invade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 2003 | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

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