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This is the kind of outside-the-Pentagon-box thinking that routinely takes place inside the Defense Policy Board, the Secretary's private think tank in a building where helmets often trump thinking caps. Chaired by Richard Perle--a Reagan Pentagon official whose hard-line views won him the title "Prince of Darkness"--the board gives its 31 unpaid members something every Washington player wants: unrivaled access without accountability. Perle uses his post as a springboard for his unilateralist, attack-Iraq views to try to whip the Bush Administration into action. But despite its name, the board does not make...
...told they could not use analysts to win deals, they would still pull in plenty of business, says Samuel Hayes, professor of investment banking at Harvard University. Someone has to do the deals, he notes, and the large firms still have the critical sales, trading and advisory capability to trump boutique banking firms. What the Street fears most is having to duplicate the analytical staff on its banking side (while calling the analysts something else). That would drive up costs dramatically...
...treaty been in effect during the bombing of Afghanistan, it is likely that the United States would have been accused of inflicting mental hurt upon the civilian population. The ICC could easily evolve into an institution that tries to trump preventative military action. In an era of maniacal terrorism, does it make sense for the U.S. to ratify a treaty that has no mechanism for preventing this type of jurisdictional overreaching...
...million Amount New York's Empire State Building was sold for last week by Donald Trump and his Japanese partner...
...California senate committee questioned whether hundreds of state and local laws--from fishing-fleet fees to truck-inspection rules to a preference for recycled paper--could be challenged by foreign investors. Says state senator Sheila Kuehl: "A secret tribunal is going to decide whether a private company can trump laws passed by a democratically elected government...