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...Your special report on Hong Kong dwelled on expatriates and returnees, perpetuating the misconception that the city's indigenous majority has no value to the city's development other than its money-driven labor [June 18]. A city can never be great if the majority of its population is taught that everything good is foreign. The cosmopolitan city glamorized in your report is a city of cultural orphans brainwashed into becoming submissive to myriad foreign cultures that have been filtered through a colonial sieve. Pierce Lam, HONG KONG
Despite their al Qaeda sympathies, such self-taught jihadists aren't getting the kind of hands-on training and direction in the techniques and planning of attacks that earlier generation of al-Qaeda affiliated radicals did. Consequently, their ability to procure powerful explosives and successfully execute massive strikes is far more limited. That's an additional reason some experts believe the London plotters were quite probably self-schooled, and relied on less sophisticated techniques identified from earlier, successful attacks. "Numerically speaking, the largest threat today comes from our home-grown radicals," says the European intelligence officer. "If you're talking...
...brings an unusual combination of government experience with academic training to the subject,” said Louise M. Richardson, Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. Richardson co-taught Freshman Seminar 46m, “Understanding Terrorism,” with Stern last year...
...This is really the first time that he’s getting this close to actual policy,” said Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik ’79, who has taught alongside Unger at the Kennedy School. “He’s been involved in politics on and off in Brazil for sometime…but this is obviously a tremendous chance for him to actually be in a position where he can actually get things done...
...WANTED HER TO paint; her mom taught her to sew. So in 1976, after working for other clothing designers and noticing a gap in the market for time-challenged career moms like herself, Belgian-born Liz Claiborne combined her flair for both and started Liz Claiborne Inc. In the '70s and '80s, her work outfits and sportswear were a revolution--sleek, versatile, affordable and, above all, easy. Asked how she turned her original 35-piece collection into a $5 billion powerhouse--and the first FORTUNE 500 company founded by a woman--Claiborne said, "I listened to the customer...