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...your success as a businessman influenced the kind of politician you are? Private television in Italy, which I founded, became an element of liberty, in breaking the monopoly of state TV. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom...
Nevertheless, I was possessed to pack my bags. This element of journeying in Bosnia I still haven’t gotten down to a tee. Sunscreen, toilet paper, deodorant—none of these things found their way into my backpack. What did were two Bosnian-English dictionaries and The Mystery of Capital...
...Oslo, of course, had been premised on the same recognition, of course, but today it is the hard-line anti-Oslo parties in Israel and among the Palestinians that appear to be acknowledging their inability to enforce a violent solution. There may also, this time, be a third element of conceptual progress: The "roadmap," for all its limitations, appears to reflect a growing recognition in Washington that the era when Israelis and Palestinians could find their own, bilateral route to a peace agreement may have passed, and that resolving the conflict may now increasingly require that the international community...
Pity the automaker trying to pitch a new car to today's style-conscious young American. That customer lives at the end of a bumpy, uphill road--as shown by the early response to Honda's Element. A boxy, SUV-like vehicle launched last year, the Element is what Honda calls a "dorm room on wheels." It was designed to appeal to young drivers who want to pile in gear and friends; TV ads show sexy college-age kids taking it to the beach and partying beside it. It's an alluring image--especially, it turns out, if your hair...
Recent hits with the youth market have tended to be flukes. Despite Honda's sales conundrum with the Element, the automaker has one of Gen Y's most popular brands, in large part because its durable little Civic scored with hot rodders who decided to customize it with turbochargers, flashy rims and other trimmings. Honda now holds 12% of the under-25 market (the favored industry shorthand for Gen Y) vs. a 6% share of the overall market, according to the research firm J.D. Power. The mystery is that the Civic was not particularly designed for or targeted to young...