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...force, a decision that would surely mute most Arab criticisms. The largest impediment to action is political will. China, Russia, and India, all importing Sudanese oil and investing in the country’s booming economy (Sudan’s GDP grew by 14 percent last year), are loath to ruffle the Khartoum government’s feathers. But if they are to ensure their long-term interests they must act. An unstable Sudan is a powder keg that could incite violence across Northeast Africa, raising oil prices and fueling sectarian hatred...
...count on is churn. "If you know something to be true, it's already history," Williams says. A recent McKinsey & Company online survey and study found most executives are unhappy with their company's strategic planning. But it also found that corporate strategies often fail because managers are loath to admit they were wrong and make midcourse changes. Prediction software, Williams argues, makes it easier for executives to "accept uncertainty and move on." It also helps companies practice "strategic agility," a popular management theory endorsed by Donald Sull, a management expert at the London Business School. He argues that chaotic...
...third of all Congressmen and women are implicated in one scandal or another and confidence in politicians is at an all-time low. That's another reason Lula is a shoo-in to win four more years. Having found a politician that keeps a campaign promise, Brazilians are loath to ditch...
...Newman was writing in the middle of the nineteenth century, but his criticism has a ring of truth to it. While he may sound like a bit of a curmudgeon, the format of the daily newspaper is certainly not conducive to reflection.Please bear in mind that I am loath to denigrate newspapers in any way. I myself am an avid reader of newspapers, and this piece itself is published in a paper. Then again, Plato decried the pernicious new invention of writing by writing his Phaedrus, so there is at least some precedent for this type of thing. Despite...
...unofficial story: the stuff you were allowed to say about him in respectable media and the stuff people actually cared about. The Scientology business, for instance. Cruise was a notoriously litigious member of a notoriously litigious institution. The press owns only so many 10-foot poles, and it's loath to deploy them in such situations. Journalists obeyed the keep-off-the-grass signs he laid down, as long as he drew ratings and sold magazines. And Hollywood humored him, as long as his movies minted money...