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...year and as I drove its length, passing pristine white beaches, lonely scuba divers and dilapidated Portuguese mansions, I met intensely angry former guerrilla fighters, some of whom had been sacked from the army. They had armed themselves with sticks and jungle slingshots and were heading for Dili to demand money, jobs and equal treatment for all East Timorese...
...years ago, Francesco Rutelli, newly appointed as Italy's Culture Minister, embarked on a campaign to demand the return of dozens of objects held by U.S. museums, ancient works that he said had been looted from archaeological digs in his country and smuggled out. In the months that followed, one museum after another went through something like the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross stages of accepting death. They bridled, they denied, they negotiated. Finally, they came to terms. In the case of the Getty, it agreed to return 39 objects in short order but got a temporary reprieve on the goddess...
...cost-cutting boosted earnings and fueled the firm's next phase--diversification. Agnelli bought significant copper holdings from Arizona-based Phelps Dodge (now part of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold) and London-based Anglo-American. At the time, during a glut in 2001-02, the deal raised eyebrows. But when demand for copper exploded soon after, these investments quickly paid for themselves...
...newly spread wings, Vale's home base is firmly in Brazil. When its three new joint-venture steel projects (with German, Chinese and Korean partners) come online in Brazil next year, Vale will be supplying 70% of demand--a commanding position that even a state-owned firm might envy.n
...Musharraf is not about to comply willingly with such demands, but he could see his hand forced once the new parliament assembles in the next few weeks. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif together won more than half the 272 open seats in Pakistan's parliament. Leaders of both parties said Tuesday that they would try to form a coalition; if they can win support from two-thirds of the parliament, they could try to impeach Musharraf...