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...Aero Engines is a recent example. The Munich-based company, which builds and services civil and military aircraft engines, used to be a part of Daimler. But after that company merged most of its aircraft operations with a French rival in 2000, MTU was left behind, an orphan inside the huge automaker. To make matters worse, the market for air engines nose-dived after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Daimler soon looked for a buyer. KKR stepped in and took MTU private in November 2003. Since then it has replaced several top managers, including the chief executive...
...people, Thaksin issued an executive decree giving himself the power to order arrests without warrants, ban arms possession, declare curfews and censor news reports. "We have to be decisive now," he said. Earlier in the week, the Prime Minister showered various sectors with pecuniary perks, including a 5% civil-service pay hike, a tax cut for businesses, $500 million in loans for rural villages, and a promise to increase the minimum wage. Critics contend that these policies will make little difference. "When you have drought, bird flu, stagnating tourism, decelerating growth in exports and a ballooning oil-import bill," says...
...Harry Potter's sophistication. Since Sorcerer's Stone was published in 1998, world events have moved to the point where they threaten to ask more from the books than they have to give. By Phoenix, the fifth book in the series, Harry is embroiled in a borderless, semi-civil war with a shadowy, hidden leader whose existence the government ignored until disaster forced the issue and who is supported by a secret network of sleeper agents willing to resort to tactics of shocking cruelty. The kids who grew up on Harry Potter--you could call them Generation...
RELEASED. CYRUS KAR, 44, American filmmaker suspected of terrorist activities and held in solitary confinement at a U.S. military jail in Iraq for 54 days without being charged; after his family filed a federal lawsuit alleging civil rights violations and a military review board determined that he was not an "enemy combatant"; near Baghdad. In Iraq to film a documentary about a Persian king, he was arrested when a taxi he was taking was stopped at a checkpoint and security forces found bombmaking paraphernalia inside. Kar said the items did not belong to him; the taxi driver is still being...
...peasants' plight turned into a civil-rights cause in Beijing after an underground DVD depicting the Ansai county crackdown began circulating in the capital. Zhu Jiuhu, one of China's most prominent defense attorneys, took up the cause in May when he tried to lodge a lawsuit against the Shaanxi government on behalf of drillers and investors. The suit was rejected by a provincial court on grounds that the evidence presented was "not objective." About two months ago, when Zhu visited the province to meet with peasants to prepare an appeal, police arrested him for "disturbing social order." As with...