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...first company on the list is The New York Times (NYT). It has been clear for over two years that the newspaper industry is in grave trouble even though internet initiatives have had some modest success. But, the New York Times chose to keep a number of newspaper properties which have been in trouble, notably The Boston Globe. Investors should want to know why the board did not demand a plan for restructuring the company. The easy answer is that the founding Sulzberger family controls enough of the voting power of the board so that actions by other members could...
...would be financed absent the Kuwait joint venture? Rohm has now fairly taken Dow to court and insisted that the deal be completed. It has pointed out that Dow has access to the capital necessary to close. That capital may be expensive, but the legal and ethical obligations are clear. Dow CEO Andrew Liveris has quickly developed a reputation as a man who can't be trusted. That has already started to rub off on the board...
...must first be clear that the Pope himself badly wanted the rapprochement with the Lefebvrites, a throwback movement that uses the Latin-rite Mass and shuns any attempt to have dialogue with other religions. Although he doesn't agree with all their views - and certainly not Williamson's Holocaust-denying - Benedict had hoped that by undoing the excommunication, the Lefebvrites would eventually accept the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council and become a new force for contemporary conservative Catholicism in the West. (Read "Germany Confronts Its Dark Past...
Russia's interests in the situation are far from simple. Moscow clearly recognizes that Washington's needs in Afghanistan are an opportunity for Russia to press for greater accommodation of some of its top concerns. Russia expects the Obama Administration to scale back U.S. plans to deploy a missile-interceptor system on Russia's doorstep in Poland and the Czech Republic; it also expects the new team in Washington to abandon the Bush Administration's effort to press reluctant European allies to admit Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. But Russia also has a direct interest in the outcome in Afghanistan...
...then there are the strongmen of the former Soviet republics of central Asia, for whom being caught in a battle for influence between Washington and Moscow has clear advantages. Bakiyev made clear that the Manas decision was a financial one - Russia was ponying up cash, and Washington hasn't been paying enough, as far as the Kyrgyz leader is concerned. But he gave the Americans six months to vacate the base, and, well, a lot can happen in six months. U.S. officials say negotiations on the base deal are ongoing. Given Russian indications - and the loopholes left by Bakiyev...