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...wasn't the Superglue that held his boot together after a nasty tumble on the ski jump. It wasn't the bloody face that resulted from that fall, nor the altitude, nor the wax on his cross country skis. Todd Lodwick, 25, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., doesn't blame anything or anyone for his seventh-place finish in Sunday's Nordic combined event. Actually, he's quite happy with...
...raid on Uruzgan appears, ironically, to have helped Younis. A rogue warlord with strong links to the Taliban and opponent of the new government in Kabul, he saw his local opposition wiped out by U.S. forces - and appears to have inherited the most formidable arsenal in the district, to boot. Says Bari Gul, brother of one of the pro-government commanders slain in the raid, "All the weapons (collected at the school) have been taken by the commander who was ruling by force...
HarvardWatch staged a protest outside the Harvard Faculty Club yesterday, chanting, “We don’t need no Enron thug, Harvard give the boot...
...Japan all jousted for control of the Korean peninsula at the end of the 19th century. After beating both countries on the battlefield, Japan made Korea a protectorate in 1905 before annexing it in 1910. The military had a dominant role from the start, running the country like a boot camp. Big business zaibatsu, or conglomerates, also became key players as Japan turned the colony into an industrial base, gearing up for war with China in the late 1930s. While some Koreans joined rebel groups, Japan's overwhelming grip on the country subdued most resistance. Some of the Elite openly...
...First Eagle Sogen Global fund, has been mining. "Our bullishness on Japan rests on the extremely low valuations," he says. He likes the bicycle-parts maker Shimano, which has cash on its balance sheet equal to a third of its market value and has strong exports to boot. Other favorites include construction company Okumura, machinery company Aida Engineering and textiles firm Sotoh--all of which are profitable or break-even and trade at less than the value of cash on their books. Other solid funds with this kind of exposure include Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies and Credit Suisse Japan Small...