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...skill base that hasn’t had the kind of turnaround as Boston.” While his Baltimore trip is for nonacademic purposes—Maryland is home to his wife’s family—Glaeser has developed a reputation internationally as a globe-trotting consultant dispensing economic advice to far-flung urban centers...
Just down the hall from Donald Rumsfeld's third-floor office at the Pentagon is a high-tech conference room where U.S. generals arrayed around the globe can talk to the Pentagon boss--and with his boss, if he happens to stop by. That is exactly what happened last week when Central Command chief General John Abizaid, appearing via videophone from Qatar, admitted that he was worried about the political fallout back home from the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Hearing this, George W. Bush peered back at Abizaid, who oversees two continuing wars in Asia, and told...
...where one stopped and the other began. As casualties in Iraq continue to mount--782 Americans have died there in the past 15 months, 12 in the past week--and the twisted images from Abu Ghraib are posted and reposted on websites by the U.S.'s critics around the globe, a growing number of voters are having second thoughts about Bush's instinctive brand of leadership. For the first time since his election, more Americans disapprove than approve of his handling of his job, according to a new TIME/CNN poll. The drop in overall support is mirrored by sliding grades...
Michael Moore has never had trouble drawing a crowd. His cheerfully angry left-wing books sell millions of copies in the U.S. and around the globe, and his Oscar-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine earned $58 million worldwide. Last week the fellow from Flint, Michigan, who's usually seen in a scruffy beard and duck-hunter couture, was prowling the Riviera in a tuxedo jacket and baggy black trousers, and this time the game he was aiming at was George W. Bush. Cannes was primed for Moore's latest movie Molotov cocktail, Fahrenheit 9/11, long before it won the coveted...
...Markets Research Centre, said, "They haven't had a great deal of success with the present [mobile] plan. I don't really see the deal with Vodafone being too different." Growth could still be on hold. The Ultimate To-Do List With limited funds to tackle the globe's most pressing challenges, how would you best divvy up the cash? That's the question leveled at this week's Copenhagen Consensus, a roundtable of nine leading economists who aim to draw up a global to-do list ranking, by return on investment, 36 proposed solutions to earth's 10 biggest...