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...remolded the company, Ghosn became a business hero and media superstar in Japan. Now spending "about 10 days a month in Japan"--where his wife Rita still owns the My Lebanon restaurant in Tokyo--and two weeks in Paris, Ghosn says he gets the "best of both worlds." The rest of his time is mostly spent overseeing Nissan's struggling U.S. business. Renault pulled out of the U.S. market in 1997, and Ghosn says it won't return "until we can dedicate all our mind, heart, guts and soul--and even then [we may] not be assured of success...
...said that this is what happened, that neighbors pointed to another neighbor - is the ugly thing about civil war. That's precisely what happens: Neighbors fighting neighbors, and it's the worst kind of war. And this is a neighborhood where civil wars have taken place recently - look at Lebanon, Afghanistan. And in the discussions that we've had with the Iraqi leaders, we have pointed this out to them, that we see a certain trend in terms of polarization and that it needs to be reversed-contained and reversed-because if it leads to civil war, it will...
...take a major role in the parliament of the streets which rapidly eclipsed the tortuous negotiations of elected legislators: Sadr's followers are reported to have been in the forefront of attacks on Sunnis in the 24 hours that followed the Samarra bombing, while their leader was away in Lebanon burnishing his regional credentials...
...local fights may initially be intra-Shi'ite. But in the absence of effective political incorporation and protection from national police and army units--which are heavily infiltrated by Shi'ite militias--Sunnis will gradually form a patchwork of militias. Neighborhood-by-neighborhood conflict and violence will increase. Think Lebanon...
...company over j3 billion - and allowing it to take its controlling stake of Nissan in 1999. As he remolded the company, Ghosn became a business hero and media superstar in Japan. Now spending "about 10 days a month in Japan" - where his wife, Rita, still owns the My Lebanon restaurant in Tokyo - and two weeks in Paris, Ghosn says he gets "the best of both worlds." The rest of his time is mostly spent overseeing Nissan business in the U.S. - a market to which he won't be taking Renault "until we can dedicate all our mind, heart, guts...