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...radical anticapitalist with a weakness for black masks and tear gas, you'll love Genoa in July. The Italian city's old quarter is full of dark, winding alleys--perfect turf for antiglobalization protesters who hope to turn next month's G-8 summit into another spectacle of window-smashing mayhem. Genoa's police are mulling ways to forestall the kind of violence that erupted in June at the European Union confab in Sweden. Government officials nixed proposals to stage a floating summit in Genoa's harbor, but they have summoned American experts to train local police in "crowd control...
...large, those meetings went as well as could be expected. Bush's advisers thought discussions with NATO allies in Brussels were a success. NATO's drab offices are the closest thing to home turf that an American President ever finds in Europe--a place where the history, might and technological prowess of the U.S. give it an unrivaled position of leadership. Bush made his case for missile defense with vigor and without notes, and at the press conference following the meeting, seemed pumped and confident. To an extent, that makes sense. He has won converts in Europe; the governments...
Creditors want to get paid, shareholders want her out, and the SEC is looking into the company's accounting practices, but in defending her turf, Wachner could well redefine tenacious. And she'll have help. Her circle of support includes such corporate heavyweights as former American Express chairman Harvey Golub, a new Warnaco board member, and Citigroup boss Sanford Weill, whose Citibank, along with J.P. Morgan Chase, is part of a collection of banks that will provide Wachner with $600 million in debtor-in-possession financing. That will buy her a few months to try to clean things up. "Under...
...benefit of Wall Street--fashion is cyclical and temporary, and the marketers need to convince investors that their brand will be Armani or Ralph Lauren, never really going off the boil. So how to reposition Coach, a purveyor of high-quality if not sex-drenched handbags, whose turf was being mowed by more fashion-aware companies, such as Kate Spade, and by other designers who were beginning to do handbags...
...Still, the well-meaning development economists of the World Bank may be even more vulnerable in cyberspace than in Barcelona, historically the unofficial capital of European anarchism. The Internet has long been home turf for the anti-globalization movement, which uses electronic organizing methods to rally cosmopolitan crowds for protest events in different cities around the world. The venue shift is all but an invitation to every hacker of vaguely anarchic bent to show that electronic disruption can be even more effective than the insurrectionist tactics of the street. Indeed, a World Bank spokesman conceded that "we've taken reasonable...