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...forces of Islamist extremism responsible for his wife's assassination were behind the September bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel. The militancy once sponsored by the Pakistani military as a foreign policy tool now threatens to abort Pakistan's sputtering democracy. There has never been a stronger case for firm and united action by the governments of both India and Pakistan to cauterize the cancer in their midst...
Representatives from Ray and Associates, the consulting firm hired to conduct the national search, presided over the discussions, which were held in various locations across the city...
...firm will then recruit prospective candidates and submit a list of semi-finalists to the committee in mid-March, when the list of finalists will be selected. The final decision is scheduled to be made in mid-April...
...officially in a recession now, but we may still think back upon a happier economic time for instruction: prosperous, distant 2005. In that year, two executives of the multi-national manufacturing firm Tyco received prison sentences for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company for various personal purposes—most infamously, former chief executive officer L. Dennis Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain. These sentences—ranging from 8 1/3 to 25 years of incarceration—were considered forceful messages to other executives tempted to skim off their company’s bottom...
...dire has the piracy problem become that several international shipping companies have chosen to abandon the shortcut through the Suez Canal that requires their vessels to pass the Somali coast, and instead route them around South Africa. "As long as there is no firm deterrent, attacks will continue," said Noel Choong, chief of the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur. "The risks are low, and the returns are so high." And not only for the pirates, either...