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...used to argue it was only terrorism if it were part of some identifiable, organized conspiracy," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University and previously at the Rand Corp. and CIA. But he changed his definition in the latest version of his book Inside Terrorism because "this new strategy of al-Qaeda is to empower and motivate individuals to commit acts of violence completely outside any terrorist chain of command." Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has dubbed Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan a "self-radicalized, homegrown terrorist" - a one-man terrorism cell. (See pictures...
...terrorist techniques of even a decade ago are already outmoded. "I used to argue it was only terrorism if it were part of some identifiable, organized conspiracy," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University. But Hoffman has changed his definition, he says, because "this new strategy of al-Qaeda is to empower and motivate individuals to commit acts of violence completely outside any terrorist chain of command." Every month this year, he notes, there has been a terrorist event - either an act committed or one broken up before it could be carried out. "The nature of terrorism...
...findings highlight how important it is for survivors to seek follow-up care and for the medical community to prepare a multidisciplinary approach to survivor care, said Bruce M. Cohen, president and psychiatrist in chief emeritus, the Medical School’s largest psychiatric facility...
...Curse of the Mogul, Jonathan Knee, Bruce Greenwald and Ava Seave say the biggest problem with media companies is the moguls, who have been seduced into believing that content is king, bigger is always better and talent - especially their own - is irreplaceable. So blinded are they, they have mismanaged their companies and shareholders have suffered. Co-author Knee, director of the media program at Columbia University and an investment banker with Evercore Partners, weighs in on the next big media deal, the treachery of the Internet and why the movie business sucks. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...Bruce Wasserstein, who died Oct. 14 at 61, was one of the giants of modern investment banking. Beginning in the early 1980s, Wasserstein's dealmaking acumen turned mergers and acquisitions, then a rarity, into a powerful tool of corporate strategy...