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...pulling off one of the most groundbreaking investments ever made in China. In May Newbridge, based in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed to purchase nearly 18% of Shenzhen Development Bank for $160 million, making the fund the first foreign investor to take management control of a Chinese bank. The tortuous negotiations took two long years. "There are few people I know who have the same tenacity," says Newbridge co-chairman Richard Blum...
...pulling off one of the most groundbreaking investments ever made in China. In May Newbridge, based in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed to purchase nearly 18% of Shenzhen Development Bank for $160 million, making the fund the first foreign investor to take management control of a Chinese bank. The tortuous negotiations took two long years. "There are few people I know who have the same tenacity," says Newbridge co-chairman Richard Blum...
...didn't return to films until 1949, and then in a small role in a B picture called Impact. As the hero's housekeeper she is mostly mute and still, a piece of antique statuary, hoarding secrets in deference to her good master. When she speaks, it's in tortuous translations from the pseudo-Cantonese ("It is the hope that Su Lin was of small help to Mr. Williams"), Eleven years later she was another housekeeper in the Ross Hunter production Portrait in Black, this time supporting Anthony Quinn, who had done small roles in her late-30s Paramount films...
...Once the results are known-the wait could be up to ten days -the new National Assembly will be seated, and begin the tortuous process of choosing a government that begins with electing a president and two vice presidents by two thirds majority, and then requiring them to reach unanimity among themselves on a prime minister, who must then appoint a government for approval by the assembly. The election was contested by broad coalition lists, but once their representatives are seated according to the share of vote they won on Sunday there?s nothing to stop individual legislators or factions...
Expectations for the January elections may also have been raised too high. The vote, after all, is just the start of a tortuous process. Iraqis are choosing 275 members of a National Assembly that will name an interim President and two deputies; they, in turn, will pick a Prime Minister and the Cabinet. The assembly's main job is to draft a constitution that will set permanent rules for Iraq's democratic system and usher in another round of voting by the end of 2005. The constitution must be put to a referendum by October. If it is rejected...