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...diffidently autarchic appendage to the Continent has become an important economic locomotive for all of Europe. Spain's economy grew 3.4% last year, over twice the euro-zone average, and is expected to best the average again this year by a full percentage point. Spanish companies like phone-giant Telefónica, construction and infrastructure consortium Grupo Ferrovial, real estate developer Metrovacesa and financial conglomerate Santander Group have become Continent-wide - and even global - players. Last week Ferrovial concluded a €15 billion takeover bid for BAA, the company that runs Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick airports. But Holguera, whose principal...
...first official appearance, it?s after those cordial conferencees have been milling around at a buffet reception for an hour or so, drinking from the cash bar and getting glittery-eyed. The cartoonist Tom Tomorrow warms up the crowd, reading his cartoons aloud as they are projected on giant screens behind him. It doesn?t seem that vital to pay attention, but halfway through the act, a Yearly Kos volunteer stops by the conversational knot I?m in and shushes us. It?s the first sign of militancy and while they may not be reaching for the bayonets, the audience...
...moves on, the events of April 2006—highlighted by the celebrated release and then ignominious withdrawal of her debut novel—still cast a long shadow.“Opal Mehta,” which hit shelves on April 4, attracted international media attention after publishing giant Little, Brown reportedly gave the Harvard sophomore a $500,000 two-book contract—a sum unprecedented for such a young author. Several major media outlets—including USA Today, The New York Times, and the Associated Press—published articles lauding Viswanathan and her novel.The praise...
...basically about how we’re cripplingly smart, and so I feel like no one else is going to understand the speech outside our class, and it’ll just make my point,” he says. “I could come off as a giant asshole.” But despite the traditionally humorous bent of the Ivy Orations, Burkle says he still wants to take the opportunity to say something meaningful. “Because I was so active in theater all the time, I felt like I was on an island...
French businessman malamine Koné is talking a very big game. The 34-year-old founder and ceo of sportswearmaker Airness is explaining his goal of boosting his company's 2005 sales of $150 million - mostly in France - to rival global giant Nike's some $14 billion. Sound a touch fanciful? Don't tell Koné. "You know where Puma was five years ago? Deeply troubled," Koné says of the now-thriving German-American sportswear group, whose own sales last year exceeded $2 billion. "And six years ago, Airness scarcely existed. We didn't get this far this fast...