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What happened to the demonstrations? In the weeks leading up to Davos-in-New York, the local papers were full of dire warnings that Gotham might see the sort of demonstrations that marred the last two conferences in Davos, as well as disrupting the EU summit in Goteborg and the meeting of the G8 in Genoa last year. That hasn't happened; this has been the quietest WEF I?ve seen in five years...
...preparing to turn to the equity markets to take his very privately held vision public, it all goes horribly wrong. Creditors come calling, demanding their loans back. Parts of the business lose money. The billionaire faces a financial bloodbath. Riveting stuff, right? Were his empire not under such dire pressure, Leo Kirch might have found something to appreciate in his current predicament...
...towards the U.S. throughout the Arab world. The last time Washington sought Arab support for taking on Saddam, it also leaned on the Israelis to make peace with the Palestinians. But having lately given Ariel Sharon carte blanche to deal with the Palestinians as he sees fit - despite the dire warnings from such allies as Saudi Arabia - the Bush administration is not going to find Arab regimes rushing to take political risks on its behalf. Indeed, consensus among the Arab governments right now leans towards rehabilitating Saddam rather than overthrowing...
...when top Enron officers bombarded Washington with dire pleas for help last fall, something almost unprecedented happened: nothing. Though both sides had been in contact for months on a variety of issues, at the moment the company threw itself down at the mercy of the feds, top officials at Treasury and Commerce said, in effect, "See ya." Even Robert Rubin, the Clinton Treasury Secretary who dialed up on behalf of Enron's creditors at Citigroup, was turned away by Bush officials...
...situation is far from dire. Apple has more than $4 billion in the bank--enough to wait out the recession--comparatively little debt and millions of fanatically loyal users who will give up their Macs only when you pry their one-button mice from their cold, dead fingers. But Apple's annual revenues have dropped from $8 billion to less than $6 billion, and the company continues to lose market share to the Microsoft-Intel-dominated world. A little more than 4% of new PCs sold in the U.S. are Macs. (Don't ask about worldwide sales, where Apple...