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...says its asset sales are part of a long-term strategy to concentrate on high-end retailing and luxury goods and jettison most other businesses. "We're just implementing the strategy a bit faster and in better conditions than people expected," says a spokesman. But Pinault's Achilles heel is not so much the level of his debt as the value of the assets he has pledged to the banks against it. The stock of PPR, by far his most important holding, has dropped from a high of €268 to a low earlier this year around...
After ten minutes, my hands are frozen and my lips and eyes dry. I feel the pressure of one stiletto digging into my heel. Up on the concrete block, Grainne is fighting a cramp in her left toe and thinking how she would like to do a documentary on living statues. Angela, meanwhile, is singing “Christmas in Kilarney” both in her head and out loud and making herself as menacing as possible...
...financing as never before. The Saudis publically announced last week that the al-Haramein Foundation had been ordered to close eight of its foreign offices and that its charitable activities will be confined to the kingdom. The Saudis also plan to bring three other major charities to heel--al-Rabita, the World Muslim Youth League and the International Islamic Relief Organization. Some U.S. officials insist that the Saudis will have to do still more to break a pattern of appeasing Islamic militants. Yet acting forcefully would represent a risk for the House of Saud, which has long drawn legitimacy from...
...fans’ general distaste for him after Tough Enough has only further cemented his position as a “heel...
Hardly. The file-sharing services didn't go away. They evolved, getting smarter and more decentralized and harder to shut down. Napster's network relied on a central server, an Achilles' heel that made it easier to unplug and shut down. But Kazaa, now the most popular file-sharing software, is built around a floating, distributed network of individual PCs that has no center. There's no single plug to pull. Kazaa has savvily chosen a decentralized business strategy too: it's a mirage of complicated partnerships with the official owner, Sharman Networks, tucked away on the South Pacific island...