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...elements. Founder Sam Morgan, 30, a university dropout, was about to become one of the country's wealthiest people. Fairfax's new Sydney-based boss, David Kirk, is a former captain of the All Blacks. And if it seemed almost every computer owner in New Zealand had a personal stake in Trade Me, it wasn't far from the truth: the site has 1.2 million members and gets 63% of the country's Web traffic. It's a digital monopoly that would make even the Google guys go gaga...
...million people live, still seems squarely behind Thaksin, Bangkok's urban ?lite accuses him of everything from abuse of power to mismanagement of the ethnic violence in the impoverished, Muslim-dominated south. The tipping point was the announcement in January that Thaksin's family had sold its 49.6% stake in the telecommunications giant Shin Corp. for $1.87 billion to a group led by Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government's investment arm. The sale has infuriated many Thais. It means that one of Thailand's corporate crown jewels is now controlled by a foreign entity. And the sale has sparked furious...
...Dawn Black of the N.D.P. Acting Liberal leader Bill Graham says his party still has "total support" for the Afghan deployment--not surprising, since he announced it last May as Defense Minister in the previous government. A debate, he says, would only help "Canadians better understand what is at stake...
...Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently announced a multi-year plan to overhaul its museums and to stake a claim in the University’s new campus across the Charles River in Allston. Cabot Museums Director Thomas W. Lentz oversaw the project and sought to incorporate feedback from numerous faculty members and students in the History of Art and Architecture department, as well as from Harvard officials responsible for the planning and development of the new campus. Under Lentz’s scrutiny, HUAM plans to renovate its historic building on 32 Quincy St., which currently houses both...
Friends wonder if Diego will one day go into politics. He sits on the board of a number of companies?including Ferrari, Maserati, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and LVMH (which owns a 3.5% stake in Tod's)?but insists that shoemaking is his only work interest. "My job is to touch leather and create brands," he says. "And then more time for my family...