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...offering $16.3 billion in cash and shares under the same terms as a friendly approach that was rejected by Cadbury in September. Absent any sweetener, Cadbury's board "emphatically rejected this derisory offer," chairman Roger Carr fired back in a statement. The bid, he said, "does not come remotely close to reflecting the true value of our company." (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...loss, perhaps, but not alone. Gradually, Hassan integrated himself into the close-knit community of 84 Somali refugees living in Nepal, the largest nationality of some 300 United Nations-recognized urban refugees now living in Kathmandu. The Somalis began to arrive in Nepal in early 2006. Most of them are from Mogadishu, and nearly all of them are victims of trafficking. Many say they, like Hassan, were promised passage to Europe; some claim that they were supposed to go to Naples, Italy, but ended up in Nepal because of the similar-sounding names...
Managing editor Wang Shuo also said he was leaving the magazine. Staffers were told on Monday that they had until Wednesday to decide whether they wanted to leave to join Caixin, which will be a weekly magazine. The extent of the exodus of Caijing staffers is unclear, although people close to the magazine indicate a strong support for Hu's move and confidence that the new venture would be built on the independent model of the old one. "We were told that we will be doing the same thing, just with a different name and a different office," says...
...While the word was merely whispered in the hours following Hasan's rampage, Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, made it close to explicit on Fox News on Sunday. He didn't call Hasan a terrorist, but Lieberman suggested the psychiatrist became "an Islamic extremist" while in the Army and should have been weeded out of the ranks. Ralph Peters, a retired Army officer representing a not-insignificant strain inside the U.S. military, said in the New York Post that Hasan raised all sorts of red flags and that the Army was too timid to address them...
...businessman and one of the men caught on tape conspiring with legal authorities to set up the KPK, has yet to be charged. "Why hasn't Anggodo been arrested?" asks Yanuar Rizky, an independent analyst and columnist writing on economic issues. "It looks as if you have to be close to the powers that be in Indonesia if you want to be safe...