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...well beaten into the heads of most third graders. Franklin is an American cliché, the symbol of the self-made man with a broad array of talents: inventor (of the Franklin stove, bifocals), writer (of Poor Richard’s Almanac and editor of the Declaration of Independence), businessman (printer) and politician (beginning as colonial envoy to Britain followed by a lengthy stint as the elder member of the Constitutional Convention...
...Chicago businessman took up climbing at 58 and has made three attempts at Everest. He'll try again this spring?and says this time will be his last...
...Shoppers, however, don't seem to care. "Because of economic globalization, it doesn't matter if you are a foreign store or a domestic store," says Wu Ping, a Beijing businessman who shops at a Carrefour on the city's outskirts. "What's important is that you provide what local customers really need at a price that most people can afford." If the invaders can continue to do that, it will take more than rocket attacks to stop them...
...Arab world at a time when the U.S. is waging war against Islamic extremism. "The street is important," says a U.S. official. "This is ground zero in the war on terrorism." Anger is directed at the U.S. and Israel in equal measure. In Jidda, a prominent Saudi businessman with close U.S. ties dashed off a letter to President Bush, saying he feared Washington "will lose the support of all your friends in the Middle East." In e-mails and Internet chat rooms, informal networks organize boycotts of American products, from Hollywood films to fast food. There is no sign that...
...public opinion. For instance, the $3 billion extended by the central bank to Suharto crony Syamsul Nursalim's troubled business empire in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis remains unexplained, let alone investigated. The Nursalim family has long been closely associated with the President's businessman husband, Taufik Kiemas. Taufik is emerging as the country's second most powerful figure, meeting regularly with senior ministers and even representing Indonesia on trips overseas. His business deals-and his close ties to families like the Nursalims-are drawing increasing fire from the President's critics...