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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...

By Stuart Wells

Friday, March 21, 2003

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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. ... Full story
--Also, Financial Times: Business Fears War May Disrupt Supply Chains
Full story
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
Full story
Washington Post: Cautious Firms Pull Ads, Ban Travel
Full story

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. ... Full story
--Also, (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun: Triangle Protests, Prays, Tunes In and Tunes Out on War
Full story
UPI: Burning Oil May Be Hazardous to Troops
Full 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. ... Full story
--Also, Triangle Business Journal: Goldschmidt to Chair Duke's Department of Medicine
Full story

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. ... Full story