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...still considering, museum groups aren't the only bodies paying attention. Three years ago, Fisk University, facing a serious budget shortfall, attempted to sell two paintings from a collection donated to the school in 1949 by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. A Tennessee chancery court turned down the deal, finding that it violated the terms of O'Keeffe's bequest. When Fisk then negotiated a $30 million deal to share its entire collection with the museum being built in Bentonville, Ark., by the Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, the court refused that too, for the same reason. Fisk is appealing...
...largest American companies that reached a crisis in the last month is Dow Chemical. It lost a deal with Kuwait that would have given it about $7 billion. It also bid to buy Rohm & Hass (ROH). Now that the money from Kuwait is gone and the worldwide chemical industry is in a deep recession, Dow is backing away from the acquisition of Rohm & Hass. Based on all public information, it has no right to do so. When did that Dow board know that the Kuwait deal was in trouble? Did it decide to rely on the money which was coming...
...code, which slows everything down. Watching over the process is deputy operations director Viktoriya Selezneva, who says the economic crisis has yet to arrive. "The volume of calls hasn't decreased for us," she says. And should callers have worries, the staff has been given a reassuring script to deal with them...
...high-minded solution that would work at 30,000 feet. But the Holbrooke who arrives in Islamabad on Feb. 9, not as a columnist but as President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, will have to deal with ugly reality on the ground. Faced with a failing Afghanistan, the U.S. needs Pakistan's government and military leadership to work together to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctuaries along the lawless northwestern border between the two countries, crack down on Islamic militants at home and protect the country's nuclear bombs...
...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 - the Manas base announcement may turn out to be just more muscle-flexing designed to remind Washington that it will have to pay a price for Moscow's cooperation...