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...ever said running a small business was easy - especially in europe. Regulatory headaches, difficult access to capital and a hodgepodge of privatization policies make the hard job of running a business even harder. Little wonder that more than half of small-business start-ups fail within five years. And yet Europe depends more and more on the bold entrepreneur. Across the region, over half the 120 million private-sector jobs are in small businesses (with fewer than 50 employees). As Europe's industrial giants move jobs to low-wage locales in developing countries, small and medium enterprises (SMES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Small World | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...tracks, you realize she's not covering these singers but coveting their personas. A dozen songs later, it's still hard to say exactly what Moore sounds like. Ronald Isley's standards album - Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach - succeeds for the very reason Stewart's and Moore's fail. Rather than fit his classic R.-and-B. voice into the dull formalism of Burt Bacharach's songs, Isley spirits away the songwriter's greatest hits to slow-jam land. On Close to You, he plays endlessly with single words like "why" and "close," seducing them until he decides they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Industry Standards | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...faces a projected $120 billion trade deficit with China this year—the largest the U.S. has ever faced with another country, and a fact Wen did not fail to notice...

Author: By Alexander Turnbull, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: China’s Wen Talks Trade, Reforms | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

Though his skepticism of the Bush administration’s foray into Iraq is probably evident to viewers, he says, people who try to place him in one camp or another will fail...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Busy Matthews Driven by Passion | 12/9/2003 | See Source »

...most painful questions for me,” says Wisse. “I cannot understand why liberals of all people—who pretend to believe in democracy, who pretend to believe in freedom…who pretend to believe in tolerance—could fail to speak out energetically on behalf of [Israel]…One has to conclude that their liberalism is a sham...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: You Say You Want a Resolution? | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

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