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...little-known Uighur independence organization, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. The U.S. State Department linked the group to more than 200 terrorist acts in China's predominantly Muslim province of Xinjiang. But according to foreign diplomats in Beijing, ETIM is an Afghanistan-based group that is thought to be defunct and moreover never carried out operations on Chinese soil. Some of the terror strikes ascribed to ETIM were deadly bombings; others were protest riots or attacks on police stations that don't fit common definitions of terrorism. 'I think the U.S. made a diplomatic deal' so China...
...storage. And who knows? With earth-bound economic institutions in turmoil, even if we mess this planet up maybe someday we can still find an IKEA on the moon. THE BOURSE Bear market bargain Hamleys, the British toy-retailing institution, used the economic downturn to go bargain shopping, buying defunct English Teddy Bear Co. for $1.1 million. Disastrous Insurance Europe's ailing insurance industry claimed a few more casualties. Top executives at Italy's Assicurazioni Generali and Britain's Royal & Sun Alliance stepped down, and Sweden's Skandia put its once-lucrative U.S. arm up for sale. The Engine That...
...Speakers Associates had bought the home in 1976 for use by the now-defunct Pi Eta fraternity...
Swiss was born four months ago of a hasty merger between the defunct national airline - crippled by a failed expansion plan and the post-Sept. 11 travel drought - and its regional subsidiary Crossair. Banks, private industry and the government chipped in ?1 billion to launch the company. To signal a new era while capitalizing on Swissair's traditional image of quality, the name and logo were changed only slightly. The fleet of 128 planes serves 126 cities in 60 countries, 30% fewer destinations than before the merger. "Some people expect this airline to follow Swissair's model," says Stephane Garelli...
Last month, the U.S. Attorney’s office released hundreds of pages of evidence in support of its allegation that Shleifer defrauded the government of millions of dollars while he advised Russia in its transition to capitalism as part of a program operated by the now-defunct Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...