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...Sawiris says he met Arafat twice, once in 2000 on the eve of the failed Middle East peace summit at Camp David: "I went away from that meeting and told my father: 'This man is not going to sign anything at the summit.'" But Arafat did approve a sizable investment in Orascom. The Palestinians partnered with Orascom in Algeria and Tunisia; when the firm ran into trouble, they exchanged some of its debt for equity. In all, the Palestinians invested about $200 million in Orascom - at one point, the official Palestine Investment Fund owned 9% of the company...
...company is to act locally and to treat each market as idiosyncratically as its demands," she says. As they say in France, "Cherchez la ? pizza?" Lower Taxes, Faster Tracks Low-cost airlines are not the ultimate word in cheap transport, it turns out. EasyJet has halted its twice-daily flights from Paris to Marseilles because the discounter was losing a battle for customers with the French railways. The high-speed TGV train can now do the 660-km trip in just three hours, about the same as flying if you include early check-in times and travel to the airport...
...absence of Jimmy Carter, 80, at the Pope's funeral brought out the usual political accusations of snubbery but in fact Carter was asked twice to go and decided, perhaps in one of his quaint bouts of political pique, not to join the delegation. Carter lobbied the world both in the Clinton and the elder Bush presidencies and again in George W's time against U.S. policy, which did upset all three Presidents. (They complained a little bit among themselves in Rome.) But the Clinton and the Bushes are forgiving people and would have locked arms and marched...
...celebrities, Ashton Kutcher is a nerdy romantic. He hulks awkwardly. His facial expressions are spastic and he looks positively lumpish on screen. Amanda Peet looks embarrassed most of the time she is on screen with him—and she’s had to work with Mathew Perry (twice!). And, unfortunately, “A Lot Like Love” has a screen play riddled with so many clichés that it desperately needs all consuming chemistry from its leads, and this pairing falls extraordinarily short...
...went back and looked at World War II. We had a population of about 140 million people in this country and we put almost 9% of that population into uniform. Today we have twice the population and we're trying to put about four-tenths of one percent of it into uniform. And we're facing a national security situation that is at least as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than we faced in World War II. This nation is who I'm concerned about. It's not an Army problem to recruit. It's a national challenge...