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Just spotted a suspicious looking person wearing shades and a trench coat hiding out behind Sever with what looked like a gun? Or someone crouching in the bushes of Quincy courtyard clasping a giant foam noodle? No need to get weirded out and call HUPD—FlyBy assures you (with reasonable certainty) that these people aren’t hitmen or lunatics, but are simply engaged in the game of Assassins...
...decades, Thailand's Buddhist majority has been remarkably unified under the country's King. Considered above politics, the 81-year-old monarch rarely comments on political matters and instead stands as a suprasymbol of Thai cohesion. His picture graces most every restaurant and business in the land, and a giant billboard of his visage with the words "Long Live the King" greets visitors at Bangkok's airport. For years, millions of Thais wore yellow every Monday in a voluntary show of support for the King, who was born on the first day of the week and is represented...
...rich Chinese companies, backed by soft loans from state banks and re-energized by lower labor costs as jobs dry up, are descending on Central Asia, Africa and even Western Europe to snap up assets. State mining company Chinalco has tabled a $19.5 billion bid for British-Australian resources giant Rio Tinto. Beijing has launched a fund to buy distressed assets worldwide, inked a deal with Brazil's Petrobras and provided Russia with a $25 billion loan in exchange for a secure future stream of oil and gas. (Overall, Chinese enterprises are on track to invest double the amount abroad...
Satyam Computer Services, the Indian I.T. and outsourcing giant that was nearly sunk by its founder's billion-dollar accounting fraud, has been sold to a smaller rival in an unusual auction in which bidders were unable to assess the true financial standing of the company...
...Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, right down to Butler’s vest, and the groups share a kindred spirit: both have shared a stage and a belief in the possibility of rock and roll salvation. Certainly, there’s nothing inherently wrong with playing to giant sell-out crowds. But Bruce’s aesthetic never really militated against going mainstream, while the Arcade Fire seem anxious to retain their indie character. Springsteen’s politics prize inclusivity; Butler’s music has attracted the masses, but there’s a curious isolationism...