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...same time. But he has promised a new approach in Thailand. "I want to get the best out of these players and you can't do that shouting at anyone," he told reporters. Instead, Reid puts his primitive Thai to comic effect on the training ground. "Despite the language problem, you can have laughs," he says, before gamely - if not entirely successfully - attempting to count to five in Thai...
Whitman, a.k.a. Blondie, her eBay nickname, had an impressive 10-year run, but when eBay's slowdown began, she tried to buy her way out of the problem, acquiring companies like PayPal, Skype, Shopping.com and StubHub to generate growth. Many were profitable but distracting, as problems like lack of trust and shoddy search technology continued to ail the auction site, the main revenue driver. "Meg was reluctant to expand things like customer service because it would eat into eBay's margins," says Jeffrey Lindsay, senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein...
...Laughs.] They keep us separated. They put me in a cage after I get off the air. No, as long as I'm fair, I don't think there's a problem at all. I will say that when I started in 2003, nobody spoke to me for six months. I was a strange man in a strange land...
...this updated and revised edition of his prescient 1999 book, the author shows how the Asian and Latin American financial crises of the 1990s foreshadowed the current situation and argues that the rise of unregulated financial institutions--or "shadow banks"--since then has been the real problem. The solution: Policymakers around the world need to "get credit flowing again and prop up spending." Until that happens, though, it's time to hunker down and "relearn the lessons our grandfathers were taught by the Great Depression...
...Closing Down The Dark Side," Mark Kukis says there is a problem with how the suspected detainees at a shutdown Guantánamo would be prosecuted if brought to the U.S. [Dec. 8]. If this were done, he says, "avowed terrorists" might walk away "on a technicality." In light of recent Supreme Court decisions making the writ of habeas corpus available to Guantánamo detainees, this is precisely how those detainees are to be tried, regardless of venue. To downsize a constitutional right into a technicality in the field of American jurisprudence is equivalent to considering gravity a technicality...