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AWARDED. To SOUTH AFRICA, the 2010 soccer World Cup final, the first nation on the African continent to host the world's most popular sporting event; in Zurich. Four years ago, the country narrowly-and controversially-lost out to Germany in bidding for the 2006 competition.
The only catch is the price: the couple sells to upmarket restaurants across the Continent at a whopping $600 per kilogram. Why so high? "It's very hard work to farm these huge, wild animals," says Christer Johansson, who, inspired by similar farms in Russia, opened the 24-hectare "Moose...
The days when CEOs in Europe could count on cozy relationships with boards, governments and financial institutions to protect them are gone. In part, that is a reaction to the irrational exuberance of the late 1990s, when CEOs like Jean-Marie Messier of Vivendi acted like rock stars and paid...
it wants. One area where the two countries do see eye to eye is corporate taxes: both are worried about competition from the new, low-tax Eastern European E.U. members. But their plans to push for E.U.-wide tax harmonization are fiercely opposed in Brussels by Britain , Ireland and others...
The world of A Grand is a familiar one, populated by geezers: track-suited young men smoking skunk and watching telly, wandering from pub to kebab shop, filled with an anger as aimless as it is insistent. Yet Skinner's audience stretches far beyond those lads. American kids have taken...