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...Russia has always been a risky place to do business, but that hasn't prevented a huge flow of international investments into the economy this decade. The question now is whether the country's latest bout of economic instability will frighten away, possibly for years to come, the foreign capital the country needs to thrive. No, answers Marc Lhermitte, a partner at Ernst & Young, which in September published a survey of the attractiveness of leading cities. Moscow scored high on the list; Chinese investors ranked the Russian capital just behind Paris, for example. Despite all the recent economic and geopolitical...
...love words, I love languages," says Amitav Ghosh, the award-winning Indian novelist. "It's only when you know many languages that you realize there are few boundaries between them." His latest book, Sea of Poppies - recently short-listed for this year's Man Booker Prize - crests along the collision and collusion of tongues found aboard the Ibis, a 19th century schooner plying the Indian Ocean. Its crew speaks a babble of English, Portuguese, Hindustani, Malay, Tamil, Chinese - and yet, through "the alchemy of the open water," as Ghosh writes, they communicate sufficiently well to sail this great wooden hulk...
...Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn was labeled, patronizingly, the "British Neil Simon." But as his plays have grown darker and more complex, Broadway has largely abandoned him. Although Communicating Doors, one of his lesser comedies, had a successful run off-Broadway a couple of seasons back and Comic Potential, his latest West End hit, will be produced this fall by the Manhattan Theatre Club, most of Ayckbourn's great comedies of the past couple of decades--Man of the Moment, Henceforward, The Revengers' Comedies, Wildest Dreams--have been performed only rarely in the U.S., and not at all in New York...
...Hemorrhaging up to $3 million a day, Alitalia has become the poster boy for all that's wrong with Europe's worst state-run companies. With the pilots association and stewards union scuttling the latest attempt to salvage the airline last week, Alitalia seems to be nearing...
...latest offer, which had the blessing of Berlusconi, who's back in power, came from a consortium of Italian businessmen ready to invest up to one billion euros in the more profitable sectors of the company. (The money-losing units would file for bankruptcy protection.) But after unions rejected the plan, the investors pulled their offer off the table...