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...Washington could be: the deal was called off after strident objections from congressional leaders. Two years later, Beijing's fledgling sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. poured $3 billion into Blackstone in return for a 10% stake in the New York City - based private-equity firm, just before the bottom fell out of U.S. debt and equity markets. That deal was followed by a $5 billion purchase of a 9.9% stake in Morgan Stanley, then in the early throes of the credit crisis. Morgan Stanley's share price has since fallen by more than half...
...confidence that Brazil is showing abroad, there's a lot to fix at home. Aside from corruption, Brazil's public bureaucracy is one of the world's most wasteful. Education, despite increased funding and access, is an embarrassment: students consistently score near the bottom of international math, science and reading tests. Exorbitant taxes and violent crime scare off foreign investors, and in the Amazon, deforestation remains a problem...
...Bottom line: this is about knowing what you're getting into. The mistake for newcomers would be to confuse Watchmen the film with Watchmen the graphic novel--to think of the film as a substitute for the book. The two are neither identical nor symmetrical. The film is an homage to the original or perhaps an advertisement for it, but nothing more...
...Although Brown (3-21-5, 3-14-4 ECAC) sits at the bottom of the barrel, the fifth-seeded Crimson (9-14-6, 9-7-6) has failed to notch a win against the squad this season, settling for two ties instead...
...from top to bottom, it’s the Crimson’s depth and talent that will dictate the team’s success this season...