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...body of Sheik Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahayan--half brother of United Arab Emirates President and Abu Dhabi ruler Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan--was retrieved from a Moroccan lake on March 31, five days after his glider crashed there. The death of Sheik Ahmed--managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds--has raised fears of a power struggle among his 17 surviving brothers for control of ADIA...
...reference in Western history, but Brown is not a wordsmith. He runs a gadget company. And that's the problem: Motorola was once renowned for manufacturing ultra-chic mobile phones. Yet since 2006, that business has been in free fall, and the company's overall revenue has dropped by half. The recession didn't help much. Keeping the $22 billion firm afloat were its less glamorous but profitable units that sell two-way police radios, barcode scanners and networking equipment for telecom carriers...
According to Logan S. McCarty, the organization’s vice president, this new procedure arose from student and faculty concerns about the nature of the final senior election, where half the number of invited applicants find out a week before Commencement that they have not been elected into the society...
...think it’s a positive thing not to let down half the people who are nominated,” said Anthony C. Speare ’10, a sociology concentrator and a marshall for the society...
...Although Manas is "very essential" to U.S. operations in Afghanistan, "we obviously have other options," Air Force General Duncan McNabb, chief of the U.S. Transportation Command, said last December. While most U.S. troops arrive in Afghanistan via Manas, only about 20% of their cargo does; roughly half travels overland through Pakistan, and the rest arrives from the north via rail and truck lines, largely through Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. If the U.S. were to lose Manas, U.S. officials would likely seek a replacement base in the vicinity and explore options in Azerbaijan, Georgia or Uzbekistan. But U.S. officials believe that Kyrgyzstan...