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...town. "When you're drunk, you'll have sex with someone you wouldn't have lunch with," went one pitch, "so bring condoms." To underscore the message, the university recently stationed the blown-out wreckage of a red Honda Prelude at the center of campus. It was once driven by Alisa Harden, killed at 16 when she drank and drove into a mail truck...
...truth. "Certain stimuli early in life seem to fuse the ideas of childhood and sexual arousal," says Fran Ferder, a psychologist and Catholic nun who teaches theology and psychology at Seattle University. The early onset of the condition argues against the popular idea that priests who abuse kids are driven to the behavior by the Catholic Church's celibacy rules. Whether the church attracts existing pedophiles--who see it as a way to be close to the children they seek or, alternatively, to bury their troubling sexual longings--is impossible...
Thanks to a major government-driven effort, the capital's once gutted urban center has been turned into a new downtown that aspires to reclaim for Beirut its old title, "Paris of the Middle East." The streets are lined with new and restored office buildings, apartments, shops and cafes. There's a Virgin Megastore (selling DVDs like Legally Blonde alongside videotapes of Osama bin Laden speeches) and a Beirut branch of Paul, a famed Parisian boulangerie. Summer festivals in the mountains east of the city have featured attractions such as Sting and Elton John...
...competitive intelligence got a high-profile boost in 1983, when MOTOROLA CEO Robert Galvin hired CIA veteran Jan Herring, who is now a consultant and CI trainer based in Hartford, Conn. Herring built a CI department that set a new standard in two critical ways. First, it was driven by the CEO himself. CI professionals agree that intelligence is only as good as the executives who use it. Unless the CEO understands the importance of intelligence as well as its limitations, the best efforts of an analyst will be worthless. Second, Herring focused on developing internal sources of information: Motorola...
Most important, CI needs to be driven from the top, says the director of competitive intelligence at a FORTUNE 100 company: "If the chief executive is asking good questions, he will get good intelligence. I can build an intelligence operation around that...