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...fear that terrorist groups might be tempted to collude with pirates--whose motivations are more mercenary than ideological--to strike maritime targets. In Southeast Asia, where bandits regularly attack ships passing through the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea, Asian security officials fear that a terrorist cell could hire a gang of pirates to help attack an oil tanker or a container ship. Singapore's former Deputy Prime Minister and national security czar Tony Tan said late last year that "the increased frequency of piracy attacks [and] the changing pattern of how the attacks are carried out lead...
...educated him on women's issues. In 1997, Magid became imam of a mosque just west of Washington called ADAMS, an acronym for All Dulles Area Muslim Society. An imam can be a layman sufficiently versed in the Koran to lead daily prayers, but larger, more established mosques hire professional imams, comparable to Christian ministers or Jewish rabbis, who are trained in Islamic seminaries or mentored by scholars...
...martial-arts academies, they find work through friends or former teachers. Ding Zhongmin, a kickboxing expert who runs the Yingcai Bodyguard Training Center in Nanjing, says he schools 100 bodyguards a year in everything from punching to "polite conversation and what you should wear in an office." Clients often hire Ding and his students to resolve business disputes that in many countries would be dealt with by the police or resolved in court. He and his crew recently rescued a coal-mine owner in Xi'an who had been kidnapped by a colleague who believed he was owed money. After...
...compensation is now tied to Motorola's overall performance, not just that of their own units. They meet in person more often, and each of the top 14 executives is now personally responsible for two major customers or regions. Zander won't make a major change, including a big hire, without knowing that all 14 are behind...
...number of applicants to Harvard Business School (HBS) has been declining in recent years. According to a report published by Bloomberg.com, a financial news website, the average compensation of June graduates of the HBS Master of Business Administration (MBA) program increased 11 percentage points to $174,580. Increased job hires by firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are partially responsible for driving the rise in salaries. Business school class of 2005 hires at Goldman Sachs were awarded average base salaries of $115,000, a 35 percent increase from 2004. Jonathan Jones, co-head of campus recruiting...