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...strategy. "I didn't want Americans or English people coming to do the deals in France, Germany and Spain. I wanted French, German and Spaniards." One of Carlyle's first European transactions involved a major French national daily newspaper, Le Figaro--a deal that could have been a political minefield, given the importance of the press. But, says Millet, "they did the deal with us because they had the impression they were dealing with French people...
...rebuilt shack on one good leg and one bad. Two years ago he was living with his family near Taunggyi, the Shan state capital, when Burmese soldiers dragooned him and 14 other villagers as porters. Three were shot dead, while Wi Ling was forced at gunpoint into a suspected minefield. A month after he was conscripted, he stepped on a mine, which blew most of his left leg off. The Burmese troops abandoned him. "They just threw me away," he says...
...both their knowledge and their instincts as they prepare for a battlefield where friend and enemy can be indistinguishable. He is a walking album of case studies: You're leading a platoon, he tells his cadets, and one of your men is lying wounded in the middle of a minefield. You go meet with a local farmer, who knows how to lead his herds safely through the field, so he could help rescue your comrade. But he won't talk; if he's seen collaborating with the Americans, he and his family could be killed. What...
...stem-cell debate is a moral minefield, and legislative activity doesn't necessarily lead to law, even when there's popular support. In Maryland last month, pro-life state senators blocked a vote on a bill that would have allowed state funding for research even though the bill had the backing to pass. In Texas, four pieces of pro-research legislation, including a proposal from state representative Senfronia Thompson to create a $900 million Texas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, never emerged from the purgatory of committee. Thompson says her legislation is "as dead as dead...
...problems are no reason to push the panic button - yet. Once talks start, "we will have real leverage," argues Krisztina Nagy, spokeswoman for Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. "Nobody said it would be a walk in the park." If Ocalan gets a retrial, it could become a walk through a minefield as Erdogan tries to pick his way between Turkey's E.U. commitments and growing nationalist sentiment. "Turks may seem quiet and patient right now," says Bayramoglu, eyes still glistening, "but very soon there will come a moment when we say, 'Enough...