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...What this may imply for the future is that there will be no quick fix for Iraq. After the Hussein dictatorship is deposed, the culture and economy of these people will have to be rebuilt from the most basic level...
...chances of lethal misunderstandings far greater than they were in Europe. President Bush seemed to dismiss this concern in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on Feb. 26: "It is presumptuous and insulting to suggest that a whole region of the world...is somehow untouched by the most basic aspirations of life. Human cultures can be vastly different, yet the human heart desires the same good things everywhere on earth...
Most European family firms are closely held and reluctant to disclose more than the basic financial information required by regulators. But in France, many of the biggest family companies are publicly listed, thanks to securities laws that let such companies leverage a substantial part of their assets on the stock market while still maintaining control. Of the 250 largest firms whose shares trade on the Paris stock exchange, 57% were family controlled in 1998 (the latest year for which figures are available), up from 48% five years earlier, according to a study by the Insead business school. By comparison, about...
...Still, regardless of difficulties in the south, the basic battle plan remains unchanged: The U.S.-led forces are driving on Baghdad in order to finish this war quickly. But unexpected resistance may mean they will expect some fierce battles along the way. And Saddam, for his part, will focus on trying to slow the coalition advance. "The enemy is working on making [the war] short," he told Iraqi TV on Monday, "and we, with the will of God, are working on making it long and heavy...
...with no need for the Western products that have made him a dependent consumer." When Bizot points out that Cambodian peasants are destitute of almost everything, including imports, Douch is deaf to him: years before the triumph of the Khmer Rouge, both the man and the system had sacrificed basic human values for the sake of abstract, lethal rhetoric...