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...African leaders like Tutu and Ghanaian President John Kufuor and by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer--to reach some sort of compromise. But the question of who would rule was unresolved, leaving many Kenyans worried that the furies unleashed by the stolen election would lurk close to the surface, ready to break out at any time...
...However, beneath the optimism exuding from these ‘dissidents’ there lurk very sinister premises that call their politics into question. Opposition to the Iraq War, when waged by the Democrats and their allies, has been scarred by its ‘imperiality’: Their activism has refused to recognize the occupation of Iraq as evidence of America’s hegemonic aspirations. In fact, liberal opposition typically enacts at least two imperial premises: first, that American lives and interests matter more than Iraqi ones, and second, that American foreign policy is generally benevolent. What opposition...
...company's traditions. Just as in the mountains, he moves with care. "Peter Brabeck lives life to the full, but he's circumspect," says Vreni Spoerry, 64, a nonexecutive Nestle director for the past decade. "He's good at anticipating what might happen and seeing where the risks lurk...
...Nestle's case, the risks lurk literally everywhere. The company dates back to 1867--when Henri Nestle started selling a cereal he had invented for infants--and is still based in his hometown, Vevey, Switzerland, on Lake Geneva. But it has long outgrown its Swiss roots and is today perhaps the most multinational of multinationals. Its products are available in almost every nation in the world, and its executive board is made up of two Americans, two Austrians, a Briton, a Dutchman, a German, a Mexican, two Spaniards and a Swede. Yet its corporate culture remains firmly grounded...
...most interesting sites in the search engine category lurk deep within the list of 1,600 sites: new companies that have the hopes and aspirations of being the next Google. Sites like chacha.com (#171 in the search engine rankings) and mahalo.com (#153) are attempting to insert human editors back into the search experience, while other sites like Powerset and Wikia are attempting to create a whole new paradigm for search through better understanding of syntax and community involvement. It's hard to imagine that one of these startups could upset the search engine apple cart, especially one so top-heavy...