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...movements of the Leeds threesome go undetected? There are some 570,000 people of Pakistani descent in Britain, so despite efforts by both countries to keep an eye on the human ebb and flow, many trips raise no flags. A visit to relatives in Pakistan can easily be used as cover for something nefarious--or put an unsuspecting young man on a path he and his parents never planned. Ten thousand madrasahs are teaching Islam to more than 1.5 million students in Pakistan, including young Brits. A militant in Jaish-e-Muhammad, a group whose activists were responsible for suicide...
...local internists began to prescribe stronger pain-killers for regular patients, some of those drugs--no one has reliable figures--began to flow into the black market, whether through pharmacy and warehouse theft, Internet sales or the scamming of legitimate doctors. When OxyContin, a time-release version of the opioid oxycodone, was introduced in 1995, drug addicts learned to grind up the pills to get a quick, intense high; in pockets of Appalachia, Maine and Ohio, OxyContin became the drug of choice. Meanwhile, celebrity abusers--including Rush Limbaugh and Courtney Love--sparked a flurry of publicity, leading politicians to push...
That's where the controversy kicks in. In their drive to reduce working capital and improve cash flow to pay off the debts incurred during the buyout, managers can't afford to be sentimental about businesses that don't do well. They spin off, reorganize or shut down poorly performing subsidiaries. Thousands of workers can lose their jobs in the process. But what's bad for the workers is good for the company's financials...
...June public offering on the Frankfurt stock exchange set off a stampede by investors. The shares were more than seven times oversubscribed, not least because MTU's sales are rising briskly and its cash flow more than doubled in the first quarter as the aircraft industry picked up again. KKR's total equity investment in MTU was $326 million. Following the IPO, KKR has returned $590 million to its investors, and it continues to hold a 29% stake, valued at $390 million. KKR tripled its money in 19 months...
...father in family life. "As I look back over the five published books," she says, "I realize that it's kind of a litany of bad fathers. That's where evil seems to flourish, in places where people didn't get good fathering." Some of that must surely flow from her own experiences: her relationship with her father has been uneven, and the father of her oldest daughter is no longer part of Rowling's life...