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...enough to just have a Ferrari.' ABDULLAH AL-MANNAEI, resident of Abu Dhabi, on Arab businessmen who spend millions on single-digit license plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...since March, when Taiwanese elected Ma Ying-jeou as President, China and Taiwan relations have been improving. Case in point: on June 13, a landmark agreement was reached in Beijing that clears the way for direct chartered flights to the island and back every weekend - and businessmen keen on developing ties to the mainland are breathing easier. "The direct flights would save us a whole work day when we travel," says Samuel Chiu, a Taiwan-based business development manager at electronic instrumentation manufacturer Agilent Technologies. "That's the biggest cost benefit. Traveling to Shanghai will only take two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China and Taiwan's Plane Diplomacy | 6/13/2008 | See Source »

Posh as it is, Call Girl at its best is not really a sexy show. There's something studied and businesslike about Belle's bed play, and her sessions with pasty-buttocked businessmen are usually more funny than arousing. It's not a profound show either, though Hannah occasionally ruminates on her sex-vs.-love life à la Carrie Bradshaw in satc: "Sex is really a numbers game. Group sex is complicated, but that's mechanics. For me the hardest numbers have always been one plus one." (One is the loneliest but by no means the highest number that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Call Girl | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...take years for the system to produce enough young players to reverse what he calls the "horrendous football losses of the perestroika period and of the early 1990s," when the old Soviet sports structures collapsed and young people abandoned the game in droves. But with Russia's corporations and businessmen flush with cash, there's a chance to build something again. And even if the Russians don't make much of a splash at Euro 2008, there is another prize in their sights: officials are already talking about a bid to host the 2018 World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's New Goal | 6/11/2008 | See Source »

...Miami, the cartoonist was approached by several businessmen in the Nicaraguan expat community that fled the Sandinistas in the 1980s, and are now keen to undermine the Ortega administration voted into power in 2006. Their proposal: a mass-distribution anti-Sandinista comic book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoonists Go to War | 6/10/2008 | See Source »

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