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...Other European leagues aren't as keen as England on French coaches, but the Gallic touch is finding takers farther afield. Claude Le Roy, who coached Cameroon's 1998 World Cup side, has signed on at Shanghai's Cosco, while Manuel Amoros, who collected 82 caps with les Bleus, has taken the helm at the Tunisian club Sfax. If the foursome at the World Cup draw good performances from their teams, the football factory may find orders for its by-products mirroring the demand for its main export...
...passed his CEO title to his son Leonard, then 35. Now, through an acquisition binge, Leonard has increased the number of TV and radio stations CanWest owns and expanded into newspapers, making it Canada's largest media conglomerate and doubling revenues. CanWest has been acquiring media interests as far afield as Australia and Northern Ireland...
...society as the leaders of the country's numerous tribes peer through the fog of war to glimpse a post-Taliban future. They are not alone. Each of the bordering nations--Iran, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan--has its preferred outcome and is working to secure it. Further afield, the U.S. and its allies are waking up to their need for a stable postwar Afghanistan. Without it, U.S. officials say, there is no way to prevent the country from continuing to serve as a haven for terrorists. "[We] should learn a lesson from the previous engagement in the Afghan...
...society as the leaders of the country's numerous tribes peer through the fog of war to glimpse a post-Taliban future. They are not alone. Each of the bordering nations?Iran, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan?has its preferred outcome and is working to secure it. Further afield, the U.S. and its allies are waking up to their need for a stable postwar Afghanistan. Without it, U.S. officials say, there is no way to prevent the country from continuing to serve as a haven for terrorists. "(We) should learn a lesson from the previous engagement in the Afghan...
...secured corrective surgery for a Salvadoran boy with a deformed leg in exchange for providing a surgeon with a supply of crutches and leg braces. A range of Rotary Clubs and other service groups assist the Samaritan with logistics and funding so that he can mount missions as far afield as Kosovo, Kenya and Argentina. Through Airline Ambassadors, an aid group of airline employees, Gray grabs air-cargo space for his bulky shipments...