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...hope is that government leaders have learned the lessons of the past. In a statement issued at the G-20 summit in Washington in November, the participants insisted that they understood "the critical importance of rejecting protectionism and not turning inward in times of financial uncertainty." In times of economic stress, however, it is often difficult to prioritize the greater good...
...Such precautions might seem extreme until one ponders the attacks in Mumbai two months ago. Ten terrorists killed 173 and paralyzed a city of 13 million for three days, armed with little more than automatic weapons, grenades and cell phones. "Certainly, the Mumbai attacks ought to be understood clearly down to the local level," said Renuart. What got his attention - and that of everyone planning security for Obama's inaugural - is how quickly a band of terrorists could "hold a fairly large city hostage." Banning umbrellas to help keep AK-47s off the Mall, the Secret Service believes...
...Written before the full force of the crisis became apparent, Yasheng Huang's Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State presciently anticipates the need for a guide to the least understood weaknesses in China's economy. An MIT professor, Huang argues that China's real reforms were in the 1980s, while from 1989 to 2002 leaders actually moved the economy in the wrong direction and might be about...
...said that despite Fitzgerald’s attachment to Harvard, the chance to head a strength program in the Southeastern Conference, one of the nation’s most prominent athletic conferences, was simply too good to pass up. “In college football, it’s understood that an opportunity like that is impossible to pass up,” Ehrlich said. “To be the head strength and conditioning coach at an SEC school—that’s being at the top of your industry, so it’s something that...
...college football, it’s understood that an opportunity like that is impossible to pass up,” Ehrlich said. “To be the head strength and conditioning coach at an SEC school—that’s being at the top of your industry, so it’s something that is unspoken—that it’s natural that somebody’s going to take that...