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...performance in handling these recalls. By pointing out specifically where things broke down and then spelling out what he would do to fix it - testing every batch of toys before it leaves China, rather than relying on testing raw materials - the CEO reassured American consumers that he understood the problem and would back up his apology with action...
...matter. He sent his own daughters to study in the U.S. in order to avoid the ban. In an interview in the Financial Times this week, he said: "The right to a higher education cannot be restricted because of what a girl wears. There is no such problem in Western societies. I believe it is the first duty of those in politics to solve this problem." Altinay, at the Open Society, cautioned that Erdogan would be wise to try to convince secularists about need for the changes and not use his majority carelessly. "He can do it, but it would...
...Wednesday the Senate fell four votes short of passing a bill mandating that U.S. troops be allowed to spend as much time at home as they do on deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The defeated proposal, which also failed in July, addresses a genuine problem: Throughout Iraq you meet soldiers and Marines whose personal lives have been strained, sometimes to the breaking point, by their long and repeated deployments...
...soon. The latest Iran-IAEA agreement has sharply diminished chances of the U.N. Security Council approving any further sanctions against Iran this fall, and the French call for unilateral European sanctions has been rebuffed by Italy (Iran's largest European trading partner) and sharply criticized by Russia. A deeper problem lies in the fact that the West sees uranium enrichment itself - to which Iran is entitled under the Non-Proliferation Treaty - as unacceptable, because it would give Iran the means to quickly assemble a nuclear weapon if it chose to break from the NPT, as North Korea did. Thus...
...Papering over the problem by expelling Blackwater from Iraq leaves dozens of other companies working in Iraq, with their fingers on the trigger. With anywhere from 25,000 to 48,000 security contractors in country, we're bound to have another incident like Sunday...