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...Chinese government has become more aggressive about buying foreign assets. Chinese leaders recently said they would begin to make investments in Europe through their sovereign wealth fund. The country has capital available to buy assets driven down by the recession...
...psychology department library, one of the science libraries that has yet to see plans for consolidation. “How far can things be allowed to slide?” At a meeting of the Science Library Council on Monday, administrators emphasized that the plan was not driven by the desire to slash budgets. But a librarian in one of the science libraries said she believes that the declared manifesto will not necessarily leave staffers completely secure. “We’re sure that there will be job cuts,” said the individual, who asked that...
...those suspicions. Guatemala also has an unusually high number of luxury cars and high-end real estate purchases, Lee says, and buyers often pay in cash. Guatemala City has seen a boom in fancy high-rise apartment and office buildings in recent years, which authorities and analysts suspect is driven in no small part by money laundering. "One can find entire condominium complexes that never sold" any units, says Lee. (See pictures of drug lords' latest cocaine hubs...
...time protégé-turned-rival take over the Elysée and thrill a mesmerized French public. Where Chirac's leadership was criticized as plodding, unfocused, and ready to sacrifice reform at the first sign of opposition, Sarkozy's has been cheered as relentless, results-driven, and full of the promise of long overdue change...
...Some of that activity was rooted in France's leftist-driven insurrectional tradition, which snakes from the Revolution through the Paris Commune, into the Resistance and beyond May 1968. By the suburban riots of 2005, however, the ethnically diverse, economically disenfranchised project youths behind that violence had adapted France's tradition of politicized insurgency to a pragmatic goal that bossnapping employees are now also pursuing: securing a productive, gainful spot in France's market economy and capitalist society. The French public largely sympathizes: 55% of people in a BVA/Les Echos poll this week said they believe radical protest measures...