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...urges his star to “go hard” much like a sports coach. And this love for sports—for his hometown Mets and Jets in particular—is close to the core of Griffin’s being...
...Qaeda's decimated Old Guard may no longer be able to mount elaborately detailed plots executed by trained terrorists under its direct command. But U.S. counterterrorism officials believe the remaining inner core has put out a general go-ahead to Islamist cells worldwide: Attack whenever and wherever you can. Sometimes the mother ship may provide financial and logistical support, but the dirty work seems to be handled by local, autonomous units that are intimately familiar with their areas and can plan and attack below the radar of local security forces. The pattern, says Rand Corporation terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman...
Elkann's duties now are centered at the company's investment group, IFIL, which has broadened its holdings to include banking, retail and ownership of Turin's soccer team, Juventus. But the core of the business is still cars, and that is where Elkann's mettle will be tested. Fiat saw its share of the Italian auto market fall from 60% to 39% in the late 1990s, before striking a stock-swap deal with General Motors in 2000. Fiat needs to reaffirm the brand at home and expand abroad. That was perhaps Gianni Agnelli's greatest achievement--and could...
...critique of the committee’s foundation courses is also without merit as he neglected to fully investigate the fact that students are engaged in grappling with the tensions that have been a part of feminist theory since its inception. Students are constantly examining the core questions that underpin feminist theory: how to define feminism, how to construct a theory and a praxis that is meaningfully inclusive, how to describe the subject of feminism, how to examine an array of areas of feminist inquiry (including motherhood, marriage and sexuality) and how to engage with the state to further feminist...
...also grapple with what constitutes history, who crafts history, what methods are used to collect history, etc. Under Kavulla’s logic, the work that is occurring in any discipline is necessarily “tunnel visioned” by virtue of the fact that we read the core texts of our discipline before problematizing those texts and putting them into dialogue with the work occurring in other disciplines. That is, women’s studies does have a focus on women and gender as history has a focus on the historical (this hardly seems a potent critique). This...