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...Michael Jordan, Beckham transcends soccer, and the worldwide attention, as well as jersey and ticket sales, would make an immediate impact on the Galaxy and the MLS' bottom-line. But currently, the trend is in the other direction: Even the best American players in the MLS eventually transfer to European leagues, particularly the English Premiership, along with most of the world's top soccer talent. It seemed unlikely that an established European star like Beckham would move to the U.S., but -whattheheck - they approached him. In their favor, they had the fact that Beckham's career was flagging...
...Bruguiere's lasting legacy will doubtless be his recognition of the jihadist terror threat in the early 1990s, and his frequently controversial methods of battling it. After France became the first European nation targeted by jihadist attacks - a thwarted 1994 attempt to crash a fuel-filled airliner into central Paris; and a series of bombings in 1995-96, all orchestrated by Algeria's Armed Islamic Group - Bruguiere led French security services in identifying the nature, structure, and methods of jihadist terror networks, then moving to uproot and destroy them. "It was a very unique situation, because we were having...
Bruguiere says it took years to persuade American and even European officials about the global danger presented by the jihadist movement the French were battling. "I long encountered the attitude 'You French guys have to get over your Algeria obsession. It's over; there is no threat'," Bruguiere previously told TIME. "In fact, it was around the time of the Ressam arrest in 1999 that the attitude really changed...
...policymakers have had an evident impact--BMW alone has whacked $1.2 billion from its cost structure over the past three years--but it'll be hard to sustain that pace. Global competition shows no sign of letting up. Toyota's Lexus is starting to make inroads into BMW's European turf, while at home, rival Audi is turning up the heat, and Mercedes looks like a formidable competitor once again, now that DaimlerChrysler has agreed to sell off Chrysler to a U.S. private-equity firm...
More surprising, perhaps, is just how rare divorce still is in India. Only about one in 100 marriages here ends in divorce compared with much higher percentages in the U.S. and in western European countries such as France and Germany. But the divorce rate is now rising in this country. In urban India it has doubled over the past five years, despite the fact that failed marriages remain a cause for shame in much of the country and that divorced people, especially women, continue to face fierce social stigmatization and often find it hard to remarry...