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Checked Growth: How Burberry's Angela Ahrendts Is Steering the Company through a Volatile Economy (Knowledge at Wharton)
Since arriving at Burberry Group in January 2006, CEO Angela Ahrendts has seen the Burberry brand "purified," its luxury line diversified, its retail reach extended, and its global organization centralized and connected with a new SAP-based IT backbone. Now Ahrendts is banking on these changes to weather the global economic downturn. The company is "re-forecasting almost every week," she noted ...
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In endless slide, a painful market turn (International Herald Tribune)
World stock markets tumbled this week to their lowest levels in nearly six years, as different factors seemed to feed into each other in a vicious cycle.
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Finland Sees a Familiar Pattern in War Photos (New York Times)
One of the stranger questions to emerge after the August conflict between Russia and Georgia: Did Russians go to war wearing a camouflage design filched from Finland?
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David Sabino: Week 12 NFL fantasy start 'em, sit 'em (Sports Illustrated)
Week 12 means that there are just a couple of games left until the fantasy playoffs, making every player decision the most important of the season so far. Here are a lucky seven players who will help put you over the top and three more who hopefully won't drag you down.
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Shouting and pounding, Iraqis fight over US pact (AP via Yahoo! News)
Iraq's parliament persevered Thursday in its debate on a proposed security agreement with the United States despite raucous attempts by opposition lawmakers to disrupt proceedings ahead of next week's vote on the deal.
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Girls Hockey: Ponies stumble in season opener (Stillwater Gazette)
MAPLEWOOD - A blistering start wasn't enough to carry the Stillwater girls' hockey team in Tuesday's season opener. The second-ranked Ponies scored twice in the opening 96 seconds, but allowed four unanswered goals in a 4-2 nonconference loss to Hill-Murray at Aldrich Arena.
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IETF: Should we ignore the Kaminsky bug? (Linux World Australia)
The Internet engineering community is grappling with what to do about a serious flaw in the DNS discovered mid-year, and the ongoing debate brings to mind a famous quotation from Voltaire: "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
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'Disruption operation' underway (Canada.com)
Massive bomb blasts from a coalition jet shook the grape fields west of Kandahar as Canadian soldiers joined U.S. and British forces in a week-long squeeze play to disrupt Taliban activity and protect areas under NATO control.
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Shouting and pounding, Iraqis fight over US pact (The Charlotte Observer)
(By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer) Iraq's parliament persevered Thursday in its debate on a proposed security agreement with the United States despite raucous attempts by opposition lawmakers to disrupt proceedings ahead of next week's vote on the deal. The measure, which would keep U.S. forces in Iraq for another three years, has a good chance of passing in the Shiite-led ...
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City fighting federal air restrictions (Farmington Press)
The Farmington City Council worked through a list of six bills and a resolution when it met late last week. The resolution was the council’s response to an Missouri Department of Natural Resources proposal to include St. Francois County in the St. Louis Nonattainment Area — a designation pertaining to air quality — and was perhaps a topic which could have long-ranging effects.
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