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...allowed to get up close to the lobby in 2003, onlookers could not get within 500 feet of the blast on the morning of July 17. While it was difficult to see the damage to the Marriott, the ballroom windows at the back of the Ritz-Carlton were clearly blown out. (Read "Why Indonesia Matters...
...arrests come weeks after the collapse of a bid by Chinalco, a state-owned Chinese aluminum manufacturer, to invest $19.5 billion in Rio Tinto. That timing prompted some observers to suggest that the arrests were retaliation for the spurned investment. (Read "Another Deal Blown, Where Will China Invest...
...with the political opposition running TV ads skewering any proposed deal. In June Rio Tinto's shareholders backed out, arguing that the company's recovering stock price allowed them to consider other offers. In the end Australian-British mining giant BHP Billiton stepped into the breach. (Read "Another Deal Blown, Where Will China Invest...
...automatic-rifle shots came before tear gas was used. Thousands scattered and ran; a few foolhardy protesters threw rocks back. A Pop Eye Chicken and Seafood restaurant had all its windows blown out, its customers sprinting away so fast that one woman left a shoe amid the shattered glass...
...know how this thing got blown out of proportion." -Upon returning to the media firestorm in the U.S., before confessing to his affair (The State, June...