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...three sides. The bundles of soap, noodles, socks, and oil they carry home for resale in Morocco are not an entirely legal traffic, but the Spanish authorities are less concerned these days about what leaves Ceuta than about what comes in - particularly to the impoverished hillside neighborhood of Príncipe Alfonso, whose unemployed and disaffected youth are a potentially fertile ground for jihadist recruiters. Last December, Al-Qaeda Number 2 Ayman Zawirhi appeared to recognize its potential, when he called for the "liberation" of the Spanish enclave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda Eyes Spain's 'Lost City' | 6/26/2007 | See Source »

...Shoichi Nakagawa is correct when he says, of the ongoing disputes over historical controversies such the "comfort women," that "America has got nothing to do with this." But six decades later, the onus remains on Tokyo to apologize to Asia. If nothing else, it's just good PR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Bristles at U.S. WWII Criticism | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

...that it matters. If al-Baghdadi does exist, and whether or not he is alive, he is a titular leader with no real power. His "promotion" last year was a PR exercise, designed to give al-Qaeda an Iraqi face - under the Jordanian al-Zarqawi, the group was dominated by foreign fighters. The publicity stunt failed, however. Although al-Qaeda nominally proclaims fealty to al-Baghdadi as the ruler of the "Islamic State," it is no secret that the group's real leader is al-Masri, an Egyptian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraq, Three "Deaths" But One Body | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...Sergei Boguslavsky, Head, TSRT (Center for Reputation Technologies) private PR firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin: Hero or Opportunist? | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

Over the past five years, Logan, like other U.S. airports, has cultivated the atmosphere of a minimum security prison. The federal government, armed to the teeth with bureaucratic diktats, inefficient PR stunts and illogical over-reactions, has done its best to making flying thoroughly unpleasant...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: If No One Flies, No One Dies | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

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