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...investigation into the July 7 bombings is how little we know about the processes of radicalization, recruitment and induction into this network of networks. It is precisely that lack of knowledge that looms largest a year later. The British government has repeatedly stressed that there is no firm evidence linking al-Qaeda to the July 7 bombings. This suggests some confusion in high places about the nature and modus operandi of the al-Qaeda network. It seems odd to deny an al-Qaeda link in the light of a video message from Khan, accompanied by a statement by Osama...
...then selling them high-margin nonfood items like TVs and home furnishings. And he has successfully developed both mammoth one-stop stores and more modest convenience shops. The strategy has left rivals playing catch-up: Tesco boasts a 31% slice of the British grocery market, according to research firm TNS Worldpanel. Running a distant second, with 16%, is ASDA, owned by Wal-Mart...
Investing guru Warren Buffett -- above right, with Bill and Melinda Gates -- announced last week that he will gradually transfer more than $30 billion of stock in his Berkshire Hathaway firm to the Gates Foundation, which works to improve global health and U.S. education. Each installment must be spent in the year it's given; the $1.5 billion pledge for 2006 will double the foundation's current spending--and boost its already powerful impact...
...door by emphasizing convenience, reasonable prices and new technology, including the latest in dental implants. "That's what works in Spain," Colman says through a translator. In 2005 Vital Dent was second in Spain only to Burger King in attracting franchise investment, according to Franchisa, an industry consulting firm. And he hopes a similar strategy will appeal to Americans looking for an alternative to the old-fashioned neighborhood dentist. "The United States market offers a great opportunity," says Colman...
...others now look to use "their own balance sheets to extend credit to clients, to assume market risk on their behalf and sometimes to co-invest alongside them." In some respects, industry pioneers like Macquarie and Goldman are borrowing from the tactics of hedge funds and venture-capital firms to reinvent what investment banking is all about. Risk has its rewards. Macquarie's profits have increased roughly ninefold over the past 10 years, while its share price has soared 900% since the firm went public...