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...course, if there is one asset the clubs are all chasing now, it is the local member. An Asian-white ratio of 90 to 10 is no longer seen as unspeakable decline but economic salvation. In pursuit of this, the clubs have undergone strenuous reinvention, espousing "multiculturalism" and downplaying Anglo connections like any lefty nongovernmental organization...
...separate from the j1 billion-plus convertible bond issue announced only days earlier by the firm at the core of the Pinault empire - a publicly traded retail conglomerate called Pinault Printemps-Redoute (PPR), in which Pinault holds a 42% stake. PPR has also sold more than j3 billion in assets this year. People close to Pinault insist that the timing of these transactions is purely coincidental, and that he's not experiencing any financial difficulty. Nonetheless, his cash-raising flurry is the buzz of Paris, where the 66-year-old is a larger-than-life figure who is feared, admired...
...best asset Arafat, Hamas and others looking for Abbas to fail have going for them is the situation on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza, where millions of ordinary Palestinians struggle to survive amid the privations of constant Israeli closures and military incursions. Abbas desperately needs an easing of those conditions in order to demonstrate that his way can bring positive change to Palestinian lives. But Israel's actions are guided by its security concerns, and there may not be much more than symbolic gestures towards the Palestinians until the PA security forces launch a crackdown. Abbas...
...Bynum, the Columbia history professor, cautions that Radcliffe’s connection with Harvard is a risk as well as an asset...
...Depth is our best asset,” co-captain Jane Humphries said. “It came down to the best team, not the team with the best individual swimmers...