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...probably not known as a hard as nails enforcer, so what will be key is who she brings in to head enforcement," says Coffee, a specialist in corporate and securities law. "It has to be someone strong, this will send a signal, this will be a symbol of unequivocal enforcement. A tough prosecutor will be a big, big help to her, and the agency needs that...
...World Economic Forum got its start in January 1971 when University of Geneva Professor Klaus Schwab chaired a centralized meeting of the key players in European business to discuss ways that their firms could catch up with successful American management practices. The success of the meeting led Schwab to create the European Management Forum as a non-profit that would facilitate such conferences on an annual basis. The choice to host the meetings in Davos, Switzerland - a town famous as a 19th century destination for Europeans seeking treatment for lung disease - was based on its isolated location and the privacy...
...turn toward violence. And militias remain a lurking presence in the political process as well. The truth is that any move by the new White House on a U.S. withdrawal is a gamble, including sticking to the current timetable. Even the sharpest of Iraq observers have failed to foresee key turns for the better and worse over the years...
...Whereas Pakistan was once seen as the key to fixing Afghanistan, these days it's starting to look like an even more serious security crisis in itself. According to a report released by the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies, a terrorism monitoring organization, last year 8,000 lives in Pakistan were lost to suicide attacks, terrorist bombings, Predator drone attacks and military operations against militants - some 600 less than the lives lost in Afghanistan, a country at war. And the government in Islamabad appears unable to respond effectively...
...example, two key Taliban commanders in South Waziristan, Maulvi Muhammad Nazir - who helped the Pakistani army mount an attack on his tribal rival, Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud - and Hafiz Gul Bahadur have nonaggression pacts with the Pakistani army. The military defends these arrangements on the grounds that it is unable to operate in areas where there are "hostile tribes" like Mehsud's and that it is prioritizing offensives in other parts of the border region. Some are unconvinced. "It appears that unless the militants are attacking Pakistani forces, the army doesn't consider them a problem," says one senior...