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...privately owned, with two-thirds of that in the hands of 1,252 individuals, families and companies. Mohamed al Fayed, the Egyptian-born owner of swish department store Harrods, has 12,140 hectares; the Danish vice chairman of Lego, Kjeld Kirk Christiansen, 20,230 hectares. After the breakdown of Highland clan society in the turbulent years that followed parliamentary union with England in 1707, clan chiefs brutally evicted their tenants, clearing the land for more profitable sheep farming. It was only after the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 that ordinary Scots were able to take back control over...
...what will follow if it succeeds. Wolfensohn's warnings foresee a long siege, which he says would leave three quarters of the Palestinian population living in poverty within two years. But Washington may be banking on a quicker result: By putting the squeeze on ordinary Palestinians and forcing a breakdown in governance, some Israeli and U.S. officials may be hoping that President Mahmoud Abbas would be able within a few months to dissolve the Palestinian government and call new elections - as he last week reminded everyone that he has the authority...
...more New Line has embraced this online cult following - a comprehensive breakdown of the film's extensive fan universe can be found on its own, lengthy Wikipedia page - the more Snakes web sites have gone up. Here are a dozen sites that together give you a feeling for just how widespread Snakes on a Plane mania has become...
...directors' finance meeting in 2000. Skilling, unwilling to give an inch, even tried to deny he was present at such meetings - even when he was listed in the minutes as being there. "Skilling prided himself on being a control freak. Now he's essentially arguing there was a complete breakdown of control," says Wynne. "He can't have it both ways...
...when he wakes up one morning and decides for the first time ever, to read the newspaper. Saying, “Some things that seemed black and white are starting to seem a little more gray,” Quaid’s President Stanton goes into nervous breakdown mode, refusing to speak to the media. In an effort to get Stanton’s approval ratings up, Sutter books the President to be a guest judge on the final episode of “American Dreamz.” Unfortunately for the President, one of the finalists...