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...seen or said. She gives us her pilgrims from the inside out, illuminating their hopes but wise to their illusions. And as Eric, a budding scholar of immigration, learns about more final passages, there is a musk of Lawrencian magic hovering around the social comedy. The terrain of Anglo-Indian confusion that Desai helped discover is now looking close to overcrowded. In The Zigzag Way, she stakes out new ground and so yields discoveries about places not found on any map. --By Pico Iyer
...China, which is expected to grab up to one-third of steel produced this year for infrastructure and other projects. Last year, estimated global crude steel consumption reached 976,000 metric tons, up 6% from the previous year and 15% from three years earlier. Last month, the $4.02 billion Anglo-Dutch steel producer Corus recorded its first half-yearly profits since its formation five years ago. "We're keeping our feet on the ground," said chief executive Philippe Varin. But "we expect further progress in margin and profit in the second half, based on the improving global fundamentals and restructuring...
...INDICATORS Two Steps Forward ... Royal Dutch/Shell announced plans to merge its twin holding companies and their boards into one Netherlands-based firm, part of the restructuring prompted by its January reserves booking scandal. But the Anglo-Dutch oil major also said that a further 900 million bbl. of reserves were under review...
...useful for spare parts for a nuclear program in a country under sanctions, such as Iran." Europe really doesn't have much to offer Tehran for good behavior. Most European countries are trading with Iran already, evidenced by last month's reported €3.25 billion agreement by Spanish and Anglo-Dutch oil concerns to exploit Iran's natural gas reserves. Saeed Laylaz, a reformist analyst in Tehran, says only an end to U.S. sanctions and admission to the World Trade Organization might tempt the regime - something the U.S. is unlikely to support. Without a breakthrough, it's likely the IAEA...
...said that the democratic process has often been “obstructed by white supremacy,” or an insistence that America’s culture is based at its Anglo-Saxon center, and not at its ever-changing immigrant landscape...