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...list of 34 former Iraqi Baath officials allegedly supporting the insurgency from Syria that the U.S. wanted the regime to round up. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that the U.S. has pressed Syria to arrest Sulayman Khalid Darwish, a Syrian who Washington charges is not only the chief banker to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist mastermind in Iraq, but also one of his top logistical agents and recruiters. The official says Darwish sends money "across the Syrian border in vehicles driven by couriers carrying bags of cash" to be delivered to al-Zarqawi's personal aides. Assad...
...classic. The best "business" book previously written about China is probably Jim Mann's Beijing Jeep, an account of the ill-fated auto joint venture in China's early days of experimenting with capitalism. Mr. China (Harper Business; 252 pages) joins it at the top. Clissold, despite being a banker (now working at Goldman Sachs in Beijing), writes wonderfully. The book is sharply observed, funny as hell, and educational for anyone either doing business in China or thinking about...
...interesting enough. If 36,000 people finished the New York City Marathon last year, how hard could it be? The ultras race over hill and dale in 50- to 100-mile painfests, like the Western States 100 and the Leadville Trail 100. Says John Medinger, 54, an investment banker in San Francisco who has run about 130 ultras: "If you think of the whole thing, it's scary, even if you've done it before. But if you break it into pieces or stay focused on the moment, it's entirely doable...
...Ammari's was marked as a liberal by his lack of a beard, his background as a banker and his modernizing proposals. But some less cautious liberal contenders struck a defiant pose: One candidate boldly proposed legalizing movie theaters and giving women the right to drive cars, earning him a torrent of warnings about Judgment Day from Islamist hardliners. Conservative candidates stressed their credentials as technocrats, but energized supporters with appeals on Islamist websites and open backing from Islamist diehards like Sheikh Salman al Awdah, a onetime Bin Laden ally who argues ?there is no place for secularism...
Mikitani, 39, head of Rakuten, Japan's largest online retail and services operation, is moving into a new arena: sports. The ex-banker, whose company's revenues hit $360 million in the past four reported quarters, bought a professional soccer team last January. In November, Rakuten won the right to create the first team added to Japan's professional baseball league in 50 years. "At first I didn't really understand the obsession that people like Rupert Murdoch seemed to have merging media with sports," he says. "But now I do." --By Jim Frederick/Tokyo...