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...early 1960s and headed the Communist Youth League in the poor western province of Gansu before becoming provincial party chief in Guizhou and later Tibet. Despite a public stiffness in front of foreigners, Hu has been a vigorous ambassador for China: the pattern was set in 2004, when Hu spent two weeks in South America--more time than George W. Bush had spent on the continent in four years--and pledged billions of dollars in investments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Cuba. While Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, was visiting 15 countries last year, Hu spent time...
...since the crippling war with Iran in the 1980s sapped the economy and international sanctions in the 1990s left Iraq in bad need of spare parts. "The consequences have been really quite severe. Things are in bad shape," says James Placke, senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, who spent decades in the region as a U.S. diplomat. "It is not a good investment environment." That is an understatement. Iraq's oil minister Hussein al-Shahrastani has said in recent months that it will take about $20 billion to fix Iraq's equipment well enough to more than double...
...clients and peers, but Dentsu's is beyond compare. Simply accommodating the more than 4,000 guests required that they attend in four shifts of two hours each. Dentsu wouldn't reveal the cost of Tuesday's event, but word on the floor was that over $400 had been spent for each guest...
...After McConnell left the NSA, he never lost his taste for technology. Joining Booz Allen Hamilton, the mega consulting firm, McConnell spent the next 10 years selling gadgets and software to the government. In 2002, Booz Allen won a $63 million "data mining" contract with the Pentagon. The general idea behind it was that if you sift through enough public data, you can spot a terrorist, and McConnell was a strong backer of the program. But Booz Allen's contract was cancelled when civil libertarians objected to the government going though Americans' personal records without a warrant...
...Biden's preferred strategy in Iraq, dividing the country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd regions. For his part, Obama is looking for ways to stop Bush from increasing troops in Iraq, such as inserting a provision in the bill that funds ongoing military operations to forbid money from being spent on additional troops. Dodd, Kerry and another potential White House hopeful, Hillary Clinton, all oppose the troop increase, which McCain has long advocated...