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...only thing I can liken it to is when companies like Nike injected technology into footwear and revolutionized the market, creating a billion-dollar industry. It's as revolutionary as that," says Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst of the NPD Group. "In the climate that's being established, celebrities could certainly build an empire that would put them on the financial charts. Would they be similar to Calvin? No. But could they be as important...
...terrorists in the region. The armed version of the Predator had proved itself in the war in Afghanistan last year, but the attack in Yemen marked the first known use of the drone to kill a terrorist leader outside an acknowledged field of combat--a tactic human-rights advocates liken to assassination. The strike owed its success to a tip from Yemeni authorities on the whereabouts of al-Harethi, and U.S. officials say Yemen gave its permission for the strike. But the action infuriated opponents of the government, who called it a violation of sovereignty. There may be more...
...voters polled in recent opinion surveys, the key condition cited for supporting a U.S. invasion of Iraq is a green light from the United Nations. That's why President Bush continues to demand that the UN take a tougher stand on Iraq, warning that failure to do so would liken it to the League of Nations - an ineffectual post World War I talk-shop boycotted by the U.S. But the United Nations is nothing more than the sum of its parts, and it is the member states - particularly the "Permanent Five" members of the Security Council granted veto power...
Still, many Swiss are bracing for a fight. In a front-page editorial on Aug. 1, Switzerland?s national holiday, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung went so far as to liken the E.U. information-exchange measures to the all-intrusive Big Brother state of George Orwell?s novel 1984. And Gregor Rutz, general secretary of the Swiss People?s Party, which is pushing the constitutional amendment, contends that banking secrecy "is not at all anachronistic. It?s a highly modern policy that is particularly important today at a time when we experience ever more state intervention in the private...
Knowles also brings significant business experience to his new appointment. He already serves on the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. And many liken leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to running a small corporation. As dean, Knowles transformed annual deficits of more than $10 million into multi-million dollar surpluses and helped the Faculty to raise more than $1 billion for capital projects...