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...ability to pass the League's "fit and proper" test for ownership because of his alleged abuses of power in office. League officials countered that Thaksin had never been convicted of a crime. But as Thaksin's trials proceed without him, that may change. Richard Scudamore, the Premier League chief executive, was recently quoted in The Guardian as saying: "We will not turn a blind eye to issues of a serious nature." Thaksin looks like he might be called on to play another round of defense...
...told him I had been the bureau chief for an American newsmagazine in Moscow in the second half of the '90s and that we correspondents in those days had a saying that we thought apt for the times: what was happening in Moscow then - devaluation of its currency, default on its debt, rapacious bandit-dominated "up against the wall" capitalism - was "great for journalism, but bad for Russia...
...grid - until those lines automatically tripped off as well, to prevent damage from the unsafe levels of electrical current. The final result was midnight darkness in New York City's Times Square. "It required a number of things to go wrong on the same day," says Jeffrey Daigle, chief electrical engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "Any one of those things happens on a fairly routine basis, but to create that sequence was a perfect storm." (Hear Daigle talk about the 2003 blackout on this week's Greencast...
...long history. Henry Kissinger, the architect of the opening to China in 1972, was there. So, too, was former President George H.W. Bush, who took considerable political risks at home to rebuild Sino-American relations in the wake of Tiananmen Square. And also Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former chief executive of AIG and one of the earliest and most aggressive U.S. investors in the New China. They were joined by a legion of American CEOs. But Bush and Kissinger - bureaucratic rivals within the U.S. government 30 years ago - were the focal points. Both men are now octogenarians, literally old friends...
...Georgian army today is a modern, well-mobilized force, armed with the state-of the-art weapons," Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Anatoli Nagovitsin told the Interfax wire agency Sunday. That seemed to be a roundabout way of excusing the fact that in three days of fighting, the Russians may not have met all of their military objectives...