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...course, I discarded this thought immediately. Nothing at Harvard is unnatural. Instead, I started thinking more logically, and put my productive Quantitative Reasoning core to practical...
...poring over at least one transaction involving a telecommunications firm in Spain that is worth more than $12 billion. One reason Europe is attractive: such huge firms as electronics giant Siemens, automakers DaimlerChrysler and Fiat and the French media company Vivendi Universal have shed operations they deem no longer core to their fundamental business. Also, investors have been buying medium-size companies whose family owners are looking to sell. Once the Americans take over, they move fast, prodding the firms to make their operations leaner and frequently reshuffling management. The worse off an operation is, the more money the investors...
...permission. Such use is likely to lead your readers to the mistaken impression that you are authorized to do so or that Louis Vuitton Malletier was involved in some way in its publication. The use of the monogram presents the potential for significant dilution of one of our core intellectual-property rights and is all the more of concern since it also appears on your website. Importantly, this use of our trademark in connection with an iconic Chinese figure [Chairman Mao] could damage the long-established relationship we have carefully built with China and its people since the opening...
...Koreas, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia prepare for the first round of six-party talks in more than a year, there is reason to hope for progress on the core issue of denuclearizing North Korea. South Korea has recently offered to provide huge amounts of electricity if Pyongyang will give up its nuclear arsenal, now estimated by U.S. intelligence at roughly eight weapons. The U.S. has been less specific about incentives, but seems comfortable with the South Korean offer, and has promised security assurances to North Korea if it comes into compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and similar...
...Still missing from the basic approach to negotiations is any sense that the core problem here is the nature of the North Korean regime. To be sure, the Bush Administration would agree that Kim's Stalinist government is the fundamental cause of the nuclear crisis. But Bush seems to entertain unrealistic ideas about replacing that regime, rather than more pragmatically trying to prod it into undertaking major structural change...