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Senators who want to block the ports deal, such as New York Democrat Charles Schumer, point out that the 9/11 attackers laundered money through Dubai and that the sheikdom participates in a boycott of Israel by the United Arab Emirates, of which it is one sheikdom among several. (Despite the boycott, DP World does business with Israeli firms.) Congressman King, for one, told TIME he wants assurances that al-Qaeda supporters "will not be able to work their way into the company." That task might fall to the chief operating officer of DP World--a guy from New Jersey named...
...going to block deals for what Dubai sees as political reasons, there is less of an incentive to trade with American companies--and it could bolster Dubai's effort to attract Arab capital to its nascent financial center. More concretely, Dubai is committed to $200 billion in projects, including expanding the city of Dubai's airport, and tons more hotels and condos. Dubai recently unveiled a plan to create a "global aerospace manufacturing and services corporation" that will offer leasing and repair services, challenging firms like General Electric (start-up funds: $15 billion). Emaar is building an entire city...
Last fall, Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced that the school—facing threats from the Pentagon to block more than $400 million in federal funding to Harvard—would once again grant military recruiters access to the school’s Office of Career Services...
...veto powers over foreign takeovers. The regulator - stuffed full of government allies - might well scupper the German bid. Of course, some European governments dislike the idea of any familiar brand - from yogurt to automobiles - being swallowed up by foreigners, even if it's unusual for them to try to block such deals in the name of the national interest. With energy, though, the case for intervention is more compelling than usual. Energy affects almost every citizen and business, and when things go wrong the costs are felt more acutely than they are, say, in the insurance sector. Antonio...
...Gutierrez's second round of meetings with al-Qahtani in January took place at Guantanamo's Camp Echo. More than a dozen single-story huts of cement block are set apart from the rest of the prison. Each cell is sealed off from the others and divided down the middle - the prisoner lives on one side and is brought into the other half only for interrogation or visits with a lawyer. At 8 a.m. a warning siren sounds, followed by the playing of the American national anthem...