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...currently undertaken two important assignments: working to put together the form of the Iraqi government to which “limited authority” will be passed over on June 30, and preparing for eventual general elections. This posture may signal its preferred stance, that is to accept specific projects within areas of special competence but to avoid taking over the lead role. The U.N. has become reluctant to accept full responsibility for the so-called civilian side, not only because it can read the perilousness of the situation it would now inherit, but because of its well-founded fears...
Chief among the proponent’s claims is that establishing a Women’s Center would signal Harvard’s strong commitment to gender equality and the value of women in this institution. But we fail to see how relegating women’s resources to an outpost in the Quad fosters equality of any kind. As a symbolic act, this Women’s Center proposal is a farce...
...disaster of Abu Ghraib. Ironically, part of the Bush administration's emergency PR salvage operation in the wake of the prison-abuse revelations was to hastily send Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to hold talks with Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qurei, to signal Arab leaders that Washington still sought to restart a negotiation process. But unless such dialogue evolves into a substantial new negotiation process that includes the Palestinian leadership - an unlikely eventuality in a U.S. election year - there's little hope of ending the bloodletting in Gaza any time soon...
...purges signal that corporate boards and shareholders across Europe are fast catching up with the U.S. in refusing to tolerate scandal, sustained losses or other indications of poor management. In a study published last year of 2,500 publicly traded companies, consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton found a sharp increase in CEO turnover--and it is Europe's chief executives who are the biggest losers. From 1995 to 2002, the frequency of CEO succession in Europe increased 192%, compared with a rise of just 2% in North America, where company bosses have traditionally enjoyed less job security...
...long-term demand necessary to sustain a blockbuster is still dependent on the authentic signal, word of mouth. Last year's The Matrix: Reloaded took in $91.7 million opening weekend; two weeks later it earned $15.6 million. Word of mouth can just as easily work to a movie's advantage, but not if there are tons of other movies right behind it jamming the signal. "Studios may think that they're reducing risk by having a week to themselves," says De Vany, "but they're wrong. One studio can throw a boulder in the pond and make a splash...