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...forced to admit that true victory will take more time, cost more lives and consume more treasure than they had ever reckoned. Two years on, the global war on terrorism is more global and in some ways more terrifying because the stakes and the cost and the waiting only grow with each passing...
Guitar Center has been able to expand in part because of weak competition. The country's next biggest music-store chain, privately held Sam Ash, has 40 stores concentrated on the East Coast. A 79-year-old family-owned business, Sam Ash doesn't have the capital to grow at Guitar Center's pace, says William Blair & Co. analyst Zackfia, nor can it match the big chain's massive catalog and online sales. Another national retailer, Mars Music, went under last fall...
...1990s, it was hard to resist the mounting evidence. Every major emerging market that had liberalized its capital market had had a crisis; the two major countries that had not, China and India, had not only avoided the East Asian crisis, but managed to grow steadily throughout the period. Finally, to its credit, the IMF took note of what had long been obvious: capital market liberalization does not enhance growth, and it does increase instability. In March, its soon-to-be-departing chief economist and three co-authors released a survey of the evidence, confirming what the critics had been...
...suppressed macho tendencies coming out," says Kevin Mitchell, a sportswriter for the U.K.'s Observer weekly and author of War Baby: The Glamour of Violence. "Most of us go through life without ever throwing or landing a blow in anger, except for the odd fight at school. As we grow up, it becomes a more dangerous prospect. But white-collar boxing is fairly innocent: you're not going to get badly hurt because the other guy's probably as incompetent as you." Equally important, the level of Rocky fantasy fulfillment is high: the ceremonial weigh-ins. The bucket to spit...
...Presumably had he decided to step down earlier, his legacy would have been decidedly mixed,” Lawrence said. “By contrast, today, he was very good at making the school grow and he proved to be good at tightening its belt...