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...Central Asia. When President Nixon sought to engage China, it was Pakistan that helped. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, it was Pakistan which stepped up to arm and train the mujahedeen. In the ’50s and ’60s, Pakistani bases were used by American U-2s spying on the Soviet Union. Today, those very bases have become staging grounds for the war on terror. Yet America’s ally has fallen on hard times. Pakistan is a country held hostage by its own “special interests”—the Afghan...
...been fired on three times in Kabul, while U.S. forces had come under attack more than once in both Kandahar and Khost. Despite the setbacks at Shahi Kot, however, the U.S. still holds the initiative there, and defeat of Mansoor's troops will presumably be a setback for anti-U.S. forces. Still, there are emerging signs of a new assertiveness on the part of the Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants put to flight last November...
...days, Wall Street has seen Alan Greenspan's cautiously optimistic prediction of the near-term economic picture - an anemic 2.5 to 3.0 percent GDP growth for 2002, with plenty of cautious caveats - and raised him a whole bunch of exuberance. Forget the glass-half-full predictions of a "U"-shaped recession (gentle recession, gentle recovery); laugh at those who worried about an "L" (steep recession, very gentle recovery) and twelve more months of thirst. Investors are now back to betting big on the "V" - the snap-back boom...
...ships. The rest, about 80%, arrive by air at a massive terminal near Jeddah. Saudi authorities are always keen to pick out drug smugglers and thieves; this year they are more determined than ever to prevent any terrorists from slipping in. (In 1987, Iranian pilgrims went on an anti-U.S. riot that caused more than 400 deaths.) An American security firm specializing in biometric face identification has been hired to scan the irises of some pilgrims; a French company has the contract to digitally record their fingerprints. Intelligence operatives mingle with the crowds and thousands of soldiers and police...
...cannot. TIME: Is there a difference in business education in the U.S. and in Europe? Tyson: There tends to be a global model. While business education has a more established reputation in the U.S., the format - case studies, group working, industrial placements, etc. - is being followed at leading non-U.S. schools. TIME: What got you interested in economics? Tyson: Sometimes you are just lucky in life, in finding something you enjoy. It combined analytically interesting questions with practicality. I've always wanted to feel I was doing things to try to influence outcomes that affected real lives...