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...stake to 51%, thereby extending Orascom's reach to Southeast Asia through Hutchison's businesses in India, Indonesia and Vietnam. From relatively small beginnings less than a decade ago, when it established Mobinil in Egypt, Orascom, which trades on the Cairo-Alexandria stock exchange but is controlled by Sawiris' Rome-based parent company, Weather Investments, became a major presence throughout the Middle East. Sawiris also moved into Pakistan and Bangladesh before he revealed the full extent of his global ambition last year with a risky, leveraged $15 billion takeover of Wind, an Italian cell-phone network--Europe's largest private...
Miscalculations in the final grades for one of the sections in Literature and Arts C-61, “Rome of Augustus,” meant that every student in the section originally received a grade at least one level lower than they should have received. The error has been corrected by the Registrar’s Office, and the students will each enjoy a GPA boost...
...Argentina) - the Azzuri were, to put it bluntly, the whitest of the Western European teams at the World Cup. Italian soccer has long been a magnet for fascist nostalgia of the far right, and festivities following its triumph were marred by Swastikas spray-painted on the walls of Rome's historic Jewish quarter, as well as a comment by a former minister in the previous government of Silvio Berlusconi that Italy had triumphed over a team of "negroes, communists and Moslems...
...Broadway and the movies - not that either medium took much notice. From 1937 to 1939 she appeared in nine two-reel musicals, made in New York for 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. And she hoofed in the chorus of shows with scores by some pretty sharp tunesmiths: Harold Rome (Sing Out the News), Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein (Very Warm for May ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Higher and Higher) and Cole Porter (Panama Hattie). In three of those shows she shared stage space with Vera Ellen, who would join Allyson in MGM musicals; in another she played with...
...Spain. Zapatero let it be known that he would not be attending Sunday's open-air mass that was the crowning moment of the Pope's visit. Zapatero's admirers will see it as a sign that the atheist leader is no hypocrite. But on the flight from Rome, when papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls was asked about the absence, he pointed out that on John Paul's visits, even Communist leaders Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega attended Catholic masses out of respect for the Pope. Not necessarily a knockout, but a glancing blow for sure...