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...cardiologist customers by charging high prices and failing to develop a new generation of product. When competitors like Guidant and Boston Scientific came out with their own stents, customers were eager to abandon J&J (which has admitted being slow to innovate but denies that its pricing was at fault). Says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck business school and author of Why Smart Executives Fail: "They knew what was going on; their customers were telling them." Like so many other companies that end up stumbling, they just weren't listening. --With reporting by William Han and Sean...
...Karzai won a comfortable victory in the October presidential polls, with 55% of the vote, but the process opened dangerous ethnic fault lines. Karzai was the overwhelming winner among his fellow Pashtuns, but he received less than 1% in the northern, Tajik-majority province of Panjshir. Washington can assist Karzai by speeding up the flow of foreign aid and by ensuring that it reaches the far corners of a country that has been ravaged by a six-year drought. With a little help from NATO friends, Washington must also extend the reach of the military civil-reconstruction teams into...
...most other final club members interviewed for this story echoed Kwaak, arguing that they should not be blamed for a problem that is really the University’s fault...
...It’s a demographic that makes a difference, has opinions, cares about the war on terror, cares about jobs after we graduate,” Roupas said. “Truthfully it’s been our own fault for not voting. [But now] people are saying, ‘Hey, make your voice heard...
When voters choose their President on Nov. 2, they will be the first in 30 years to do so under the shadow of war. So it's unsurprising that the clash between Bush and Kerry over Iraq, terrorism and national security has become a defining fault line. On the hustings last week, each candidate issued extraordinary indictments of his opponent's fitness to be Commander in Chief. "The President says he's a leader," Kerry told an audience in Waterloo, Iowa. "Well, Mr. President, look behind you. There's hardly anyone there." Less than 100 miles away, Bush questioned Kerry...