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...business has always had a spotless reputation for moral probity. Lately, however, a succession of corruption scandals has dented the country's corporate self-image. In June and July, fraud and bribery charges were leveled against top executives at carmaker Volkswagen and at Infineon, Europe's second largest computer-chip maker. Now another iconic national brand, BMW, is making unsavory headlines. Last week, one of the firm's sales managers was arrested on allegations of taking up to $100,000 in bribes from an east German supplier for funneling orders its way. So far, the executive hasn't commented. Even...
...food have always gone together, from Julia Child's soufflés to the potato-chip grease on your remote. But when there are so many gustatory shows, how do you know which are worth a look? Take a nibble of these...
...daughter and a reputation for devotion to his learning- disabled students; an 18-year-old described by friends as a "gentle giant," dressed that morning like the universal teenager, in denims and a sloppy jacket; a 22-year-old cricket fan who worked in his family's fish-and-chip shop in Leeds. The fourth was a 19-year-old Jamaican who had become a British citizen, married a British woman and had a young son, a man who seemed just an "ordinary Joe Bloggs to me," in the words of a neighbor. All four were carrying military-style backpacks...
...began dressing in traditional Muslim clothes. Tanweer visited Pakistan several times and last December went to an Islamic school near Lahore along with other young Muslims from Leeds, intending to stay nine months. He returned after three months to work part-time in his father's fish-and-chip shop, allegedly because the discipline was too hard. But he might already have secretly enlisted in the enterprise that came to a bloody climax on July...
...that said, the odds are still against a breakthrough deal. North Korea's problems go way beyond electricity; for a start, its economy is still only about half its 1980s size. That makes it doubtful that it will trade in its best bargaining chip?nuclear weapons?for a South Korean offer that, while generous and serious, nonetheless addresses only one aspect of the Stalinist state's overall needs...