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...already seen all the cards the Bush administration was holding. A former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy in the Clinton administration, Carter had been privy to the same Iraq intelligence that President Bush used—intelligence that dated back to 1998. He was also a specialist in nuclear weapons proliferation. On the eve of the war, Carter told The Crimson that the United States would be “vindicated when we are able to hold up and show the chemical and biological arsenal that is the cause of this...
...activists say have erupted between Tibetans and Chinese security forces, with accounts of gunfire, police cars burning, and bodies in the streets. Whatever the outcome, though, it seemed to be a turning point in the history of Tibet and perhaps also China. "This is massive," said one Tibet specialist who was in touch with many Lhasa residents, "it is the intifadeh. And it will be a long, long time before this ends, whatever happens today or tomorrow...
...seeing some vindication in the strategy. He demonstrated that in 2006 when he steered Publicis CEO Maurice Lvy to spend $1.3 billion to buy online advertising and marketing specialist Digitas before that market got scalding hot. "We made a full screening of what was happening in the interactive-marketing media field, how it was going to impact [Publicis'] business and why they needed to make an early major move into that field," says Messier. Since then, he points out, every large player has followed the trend: Google with DoubleClick, Yahoo! with Right Media, WPP with 24/7 Real Media...
While Ghosn called the shots, Kazutoshi Mizuno, chief vehicle engineer and chief product specialist, choreographed the GT-R's journey from a Japanese concept to Germany's famed Nrburgring racetrack, where it clocked 0 to 60 m.p.h. (100 km/h) in 3.2 sec., a wink faster than Porsche's GT3. "Mizuno was responsible for cherry-picking those he wanted to work with," says Hiroshi Hasegawa, chief designer of the GT-R. "Information cascaded from him." A veteran racing-system developer and director, Mizuno asked Ghosn to allow for a race-car development method. He started in December 2003, using early...
...squad. “Everyone deserves a lot of credit for the hard work they’ve put in this year,” he said. “It’s been an amazing season.” Certainly the breaststroke and the individual medley specialist has a point, as winning the Philip Moriarty Award for the most outstanding swimmer at last year’s meet did not translate into a team victory. Still, Rathgeber enjoyed the best of both worlds in 2008, sharing the award while contributing phenomenally to the team’s success...