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Oona's Experienced Clothing will close June 6 to undergo a renovation before opening under new management (and the same name) in August. Oona's, located on Massachusetts Avenue between Bow and Arrow Streets, has become a Cambridge landmark over the course of its 38-year-history. In order to reduce its inventory before closing, it is offering 50 percent off nearly everything. Get your Halloween shopping done (really) early and on the cheap...
...August, van der Kuijp was taken to a location called “the academy,” a training facility for COFCO, one of China’s largest agricultural trading companies, where he worked as an intern...
...other companies were scaling back in the past two years, HP was on the hunt for bargains. Hurd found his first in August 2008, when HP spent $13.9 billion to buy the languishing infotech-consulting giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a direct play against high-end-services leader IBM. Then last November, HP announced it would pay $2.7 billion for networking concern 3Com, a means to rile Cisco as well as expand HP's footprint in the rapidly growing China market, where 3Com is strong. About 70% of HP's business is overseas...
...after Bhutto was killed, Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, a senior official at the Interior Ministry, held a press conference, on Musharraf's instructions, to pin the assassination on Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed last August in a rocket strike in South Waziristan - a claim later supported by the CIA. According to the report, it was no secret that Pakistan's militants loathed Bhutto and her stance against Islamist violence. But the Musharraf government's "hasty" announcement, the report says, "was premature at best" and "prejudiced the police investigations which had not yet begun...
...among Chinese Web users who opposed a government plan to require the installation of software on new computers that would block some websites. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's proposal was promoted as a way to restrict pornography, but most of the targeted websites were political. In August 2009 the agency dropped the requirement to install the software, known as the Green Dam Youth Escort, after widespread protest from Web users and foreign computer makers...