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...billion and is told that $42 billion has to be rustled up by other countries. Nor is it easy to wake up to the fact that ultrasmart weapons, though wonderful for winning wars, are useless against Baathist thugs and water shortages. To win the peace, legitimacy is as vital as physical reconstruction. And both require help from the rest of the world. The lesson for America is harsh but essential: Even the mightiest nation on earth can't go it alone. The Europeans: they have been bitten by another reality, their irreducible weakness in the great-power ring where America...
Norway's Pride Over a Barrel As Norway's biggest firm, the oil giant Statoil has always played a vital role in the country's self-image. With revenues of $34 billion a year, the state-owned company is seen as a guarantor of the country's social-welfare system. But when Statoil tried to expand its shrinking domestic business by looking for gas in Iran, it ran into trouble. In mid-September, economic-crime police raided the company's Stavanger headquarters; they believe a $15 million payment to the Swiss bank account of a consulting firm may have been...
...Bathroom cleaning sounds rather mundane at times, but I’ve always considered it a vital service,” he said...
...chronic use of TiVo, Powell claims, “we’re the kind of house that if I’m home working, the TV’s on.” Well, I suppose it should be comforting that someone with such vital influence over media regulation—and, ergo, influence over our increasingly television-dependent society—is so in-touch with his duties as a mass media consumer, even if it’s while he’s working...
University President Lawrence H. Summers—selected two years ago by a nine-member search committee that included Daniel—said yesterday that Daniel has played a vital role in both overseeing the University and providing administrative insight...