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...primacy remains incomplete. Jiang continues to enjoy the loyalty of many senior Party and military officials and maintains a power base in China's commercial hub of Shanghai. But as is always the case in China, assessing whether there are differences between the two men depends on the examination of tiny shards of evidence. According to agreed protocol, for instance, Hu can demonstrate first-among-equals status by entering meeting halls before Jiang. Yet Jiang often ambles into halls first. So Beijing's political insiders watched closely on August 22 as both men entered the Great Hall of the People...
...Giancarlo Cimoli last week warned that the state-owned carrier faced collapse within 20 days unless unions agree to cost cuts and layoffs. But downsizing has consequences: British Airways (BA), which has chopped 13,000 jobs since 9/11, last week grounded more than 100 flights at its Heathrow hub. The main reason: staff shortages. Did BA fumble its math? The carrier blames twice the normal rate of workers quitting the firm earlier in the year, with recruiting delays not helping. Unions disagree: BA "didn't just cut the flab," railed Ed Blisset of the GMB. "It cut into the bone...
...coach on her own. Such stories puzzle Andrew Krieger, a U.S.-based financial executive, who believes India isn't living up to its potential. He wants to help change that. Krieger, who studied Hindu philosophy, is pouring $120 million into a planned sports facility in the Indian tech hub of Hyderabad, where international coaches will groom future champions in all sports. It will be a replica of IMG Academies, a coaching center in Bradenton, Fla., that has produced the likes of tennis champ Maria Sharapova. India "is a land of entrepreneurs," says Krieger, "and sports is the greatest entrepreneurial system...
...obscure little outfit in sub-Saharan Africa. But Pictoon - a cartoon company formed in 1998 by Sauvalie, a French-Cameroonian graduate of the renowned Les Gobelins animation school in Paris, and Senegalese businesswoman Aida Ndiaye, once the local agent for Xerox office machinery - wants to make Africa a cartoon hub for the world. Pictoon aims to win work from Europe and the U.S. that is traditionally farmed out to animation studios in Asia, as well as create characters and films of its own. "People in Europe and America think that if it comes from Africa it must...
...supply barges, pleasure yachts and the small craft of Torres Strait Islanders and visiting Papua New Guineans. Among them are the boats of people trying to exploit cracks in the system to fish illegally and traffic in drugs, firearms and people. Starting on Thursday Island, the region's administrative hub, Time tags along with marine and land-based Customs officers to find out exactly what border protection means in this key outpost. "It's busy - or it's busier," says Steve Jeffs, Customs' Torres Strait district manager, of the agency's enforcement tasks. "The more time we spend out there...