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...billion Donations pledged at last week's global conference in Beijing to combat the spread of avian...
...HSBC is sitting pretty. It boasts the most extensive branch network of any foreign bank on the mainland, with 20 outlets spread from Chengdu in the far west to Tianjin on the northeast coast. The bank has invested more than $4 billion since 2001 to buy stakes in Chinese financial institutions, including nearly 20% in both Bank of Communications, China's fifth largest bank, and Ping An Insurance, its second biggest life insurer. Compared with the same period in 2004, pretax profits in China increased sixfold, to $161 million, in the first half of 2005. As a sign...
...innocent Iraqi Shi'ites, whom al-Zarqawi considers infidels. Cracks in al-Qaeda's alliance with the Iraqi groups became more pronounced after the Dec. 15 election. Al-Zarqawi saw the poll as a detour from his goal of turning Iraq into a base from which al-Qaeda could spread terrorism throughout the Middle East and Europe. Many Sunni resistance groups have a narrower focus: ridding Iraq of all occupation forces--U.S. troops and the pro-Iranian militias that slipped across the border. Sunni politicians managed to convince some key rebel groups that unless the Sunni minority voted, the elections...
...June and July when the country hosts the World Cup for the first time as a reunified nation. The opening game will be played in Munich's new Allianz Arena, the final will be in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, and the rest of the games will be spread throughout the country. Apply for tickets now at www.fifaworldcup.com. By Lisa McLaughlin...
...rely on the poorest of the poor. It relies on hundreds of thousands of middle and working class families. If liberals are going to stop the Iraq war and prevent others like it, we can’t rely on a draft or some other measure to spread the sacrifice. We have to win over those millions of middle class families who supported this war with their votes, their money, and their lives. Samuel M. Simon ’05-’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears regularly...