Word: sterne
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...Baizer] turned in one of the best performances I’ve ever seen,” senior co-captain Kenan Stern said...
...nearly 20% since M.J. started swishing them again?) He sells out every arena he plays in, boosting a league that was just recovering from his absence. "It's been terrific because the best thing is, we have a post-Jordan world--with Jordan," says NBA commissioner David Stern...
...more. Because as 2002 gets underway, stocks are sluggish. Manufacturing is contracting. And whereas just last Friday a spate of economic reports - consumer confidence, housing, manufacturing - had investors writing in the recovery in pen, the first trading day of the new year is featuring the beginnings of a pretty stern reality check...
...Stern was among the first to realize that in a world in which holy war can be waged with suitcase nukes, the conventional wisdom about terrorists--that they stick to attacks with high profiles but low casualties--was dangerously misguided. "It is increasingly clear," she wrote in her 1999 book, The Ultimate Terrorists, "that not all terrorists feel that way." In the book, which begins with a scenario in which the Empire State Building is destroyed by a homemade nuclear bomb, she coined the term macro-terrorism to describe terrorist acts that result in mass casualties. On Sept. 11 macroterrorism...
...Stern believes the answer to our current crisis will come from talking to the perpetrators themselves, and she combs prisons and refugee camps for terrorists to see what drives them. "It's vital that somebody be listening," she says. "It's not just a question of solving political conflicts. It's also about extreme humiliation and deprivation. We can't resolve the issue without taking those factors into account...