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...Ghosn came in and turned a carmaker on the verge of bankruptcy into a company with operating margins around 8%," says Tatsuo Yoshida, an auto analyst with UBS in Tokyo. "He turned the company into a sustainable one. That is a huge improvement, but that is perhaps the limit of Nissan...
...lack perspective now. The situation may be reaching the point of no return." Indeed, the best advice for the military to give the President at this point may not be how to "win" in Iraq-but how to withdraw creatively, how to limit Iran's influence in the Shi'ite regions of the south, how to keep special-operations and quick-strike units based in the region, poised to attack al-Qaeda operations on a regular basis. The United States has lost the war in Iraq, but the "long war" against Islamist extremism will surely continue. The most pressing issue...
...under threat, Ahdab says it is a race to pass the international tribunal before another minister is killed. "We have to move very quickly in the government while we still have the two-thirds majority," he says, adding that the establishment of the international tribunal should help "put a limit" on the assassinations and help stabilize the country...
...obligation to God and as a protection against the unsolicited gazes that I so vehemently loathed in Egypt this summer. Those who wear the hijab believe that in doing so, they literally wear modesty, humility, and purity on their sleeves. But the idea that any woman should have to limit her personal freedom in order to gain the ability to move through society unmolested is one that I will never fully understand. Egypt has seen a rise of religious conservatives (and with that, of veiled women) in the past 50 years—a phenomenon that has been attributed...
That Iraq is spinning dangerously out of control is no longer a matter of debate; the question has become how to stabilize it and limit the damage. The bipartisan Iraq Study Group, headed up by former Secretary of State James Baker, is supposed to offer up some answers next month when it presents its much-anticipated report. But the events of the past week underscore how difficult even damage-control in Iraq has become...