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...expert at plotting attacks against Israel. But now the chain-smoking Hamas military commander is trying to map out a different sort of plan: how to govern the Palestinians. The operative, a veteran of 16 years fighting Israel, met in the West Bank with other Hamas officials last week to celebrate the militant Islamic party's remarkable victory in Palestinian legislative elections and to figure out what in the world to do next. Dozens of meetings like that took place across the West Bank and Gaza Strip and even in Damascus, where Hamas has an office. Hamas leaders--suddenly thrust...
...dropped three places this year, while India moved up five, largely because of India's greater technological prowess. Both are marked down for corruption - a frequent refrain at Davos sessions this year - and a chronic lack of infrastructure. INDIA, says Michael E. Porter, a Harvard Business School professor and expert on competitiveness. China is exporting massively, but "it's still adding relatively little value," he says. Moreover, China's companies tend not to be very profitable, and there is a dearth of Chinese brands. By contrast, "India is further along in building a productive business environment," Porter said...
...erosion of faith in political institutions and corporations is often dated back to the countercultural 1960s. But Kate Watts, a London-based marketing expert, says a turning point could have come as early as World War I, with its senseless slaughter of young European men. She quotes two lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied." In the business world, the issue goes beyond corporate image. Watts points out one big conundrum for firms today: traditional forms of advertising and marketing are proving far less effective than...
...about the map, especially its use of language, has led professional historians to view it with suspicion. "If you look at the text, there are really some things that are a bit strange," says Nicolas Standaert, an expert on the Ming era at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Standaert points to passages circled in red?which the map's legend says are copied from the 1418 map?that contain words or terms not used at that time. Among them is the map's word for the Christian God and its description of what is now the South China...
...Scholars also question the style of the map, a hemispheric projection that the Chinese aren't known to have used until the 16th century. Geoff Wade, a Ming expert at the National University of Singapore, says the map is "clearly a hoax," and was "probably made in the last few years." He observes: "If you've seen any of the maps from Zheng He's voyages, they're in a completely different style...