Duke in the News: March 21, 2003
What Will Sell When Duct Tape Is Passe? | Leaders Legitimate Targets, Experts Say | The Making of Foreign Policy, and more...
Friday, March 21, 2003
WHAT WILL SELL WHEN DUCT TAPE IS PASSE?
New York Times, March 21 -- Corporate chief financial officers,
polled by Duke University and Financial Executives International, a
trade group, voice confidence that sales will pick up if the war
ends quickly, but express concern about the effect of a terrorist
attack or a long war. ...
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--Also, Financial Times: Business Fears War May Disrupt Supply
Chains
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Wall Street Journal: New CFO Survey Shows Iraq War To Delay U.S.
Corp
Recovery (Article available online to subscribers only.)
CBS MarketWatch: CFOs: Prolonged War to Hurt Revenues Over One
Year
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Washington Post: Cautious Firms Pull Ads, Ban Travel
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LEADERS LEGITIMATE TARGETS, EXPERTS SAY
Los Angeles Times, March 21 -- "When you move into a state of
recognized armed conflict -- and we clearly are there now -- and
you are dealing with a head of state who has tactical control over
his armed forces, he becomes a legitimate military target," Duke
University law professor Scott Silliman said. ...
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--Also, (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun: Triangle Protests, Prays, Tunes
In and Tunes Out on War
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story
UPI: Burning Oil May Be Hazardous to Troops
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story
Baltimore Sun: Column: A Perilous Time
Full story
Charlotte Observer: Protesters Bang the Drum of Opposition Across
N.C.
Full story
Washington Post: Analysis -- Calibrated War Makes Comeback
Full story
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Reports of Oil Well Fires Alarm
Allies
Full story
THE MAKING OF FOREIGN POLICY
(Chicago) WBEZ-FM's Odyssey, March 20 -- Interest groups
and public opinion strongly influence the shape of domestic policy.
Is this also true of foreign affairs? Duke University's Bruce
Jentleson joined a discussion of the forces that shape American
foreign policy. ...
Listen
OP-ED: IRAQ INVASION IS FIRST CRUSADE OF 21ST
CENTURY
(Malaysia) New Straits Times, March 21 -- There is little hope that
the United States will stay in Iraq and make good on the promises
of liberation or rebuilding the country, says Ebrahim Moosa,
associate professor of Islamic Studies and co-director of the
Center for the Study of Muslim Networks at Duke University.
(Article not available online; full text available by calling
919-681-8066)
LEADERSHIP CHANGE AT MEDICAL CENTER
(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 21 -- The chief of the
division of cardiology at Duke University Medical Center will
become chairman of the department of medicine at Duke on April 1,
if university trustees approve his appointment. ...
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--Also, Triangle Business Journal: Goldschmidt to Chair Duke's
Department of Medicine
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EASLEY RELEASES TEACHER SURVEY
Charlotte Observer, March 21 -- Teachers in elementary and smaller
schools are happier with their jobs than their counterparts in
higher grades and larger schools, according to a survey analysis by
the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. ...
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