Word: nasserism
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...designed as a corrective to the West. Kemal Ataturk, the most daring of them, introduced Turkey, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, to Western-style secularism in order to toughen his society against Europe's imperial designs. In the 1950s, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, more intemperately, initiated a fierce campaign of Arab nationalism aimed at eradicating the vestiges of Western colonialism from the Arab world...
Khomeini took a different course. All three, at their apogee, were rulers of once great empires that had fallen into political and social disarray. But Ataturk and Nasser were committed to resurrection by beating the West at its own game of building strong secular states. Khomeini's strategy was to reject Western ways, keeping Iran close to its Islamic roots...
...much abbreviated, and while his track record as a manager is solid, it probably wouldn't merit such a promotion were his last name not Ford. But Bill Jr. won't be alone at the top. According to executives familiar with the situation, the board will also make Jacques Nasser, now president of automotive operations, the next ceo. It's a plan that balances the long-term interests of the Ford family and the more short-term ones of Wall Street. Bill Jr. declined to comment on his future but told TIME, "The two of us together would be natural...
While the 49-year-old Nasser's aggressive cost-cutting initiatives have made him a darling of Wall Street, the Ford family believes it is critical to have one of their own at the helm to ensure that the company pursues markets and strategies that may not yield a swift payoff but are necessary for remaining competitive long after earnings statements are released. As Bill Jr. puts it, "A Ford has the luxury of managing for the long term...
...Friedman--and also sadly far less notable to the world at large. She and her 12-year-old son Ephraim died almost a month ago, after having been gunned down in a drive-by shooting by Palestinian terrorists outside the Jewish settlement of Beit El. The two killers, Abdel Nasser Qaysi and Ibrahim Kam, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a secret Palestinian court a week later, convicted not of murder but of "betraying the security of the Palestinian people." Palestinian Authority Preventive Security Chief Jibril Rajoub, defending the convictions before indignant leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation...