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...family business but struck out on their own after the market opened up - in competition with their father. Pansy teamed with Vegas firm MGM Mirage to develop casino-hotels in Macau, opening the MGM Grand Macau in 2007. Stanley and Lawrence founded Melco Crown as part of a joint venture with Australia's Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd., founded by the late billionaire Kerry Packer. (Kerry's son James is now co-chairman of Melco Crown.) Citing a conflict of interest, Stanley later left the operation to run his original casino company, Sociedade de Jogos de Macau. Lawrence says he never...
...frequency and persistence of attacks like the one at Azizabad. "You can't have casualties and no end in sight," President Hamid Karzai told TIME recently. Senior U.S. officials agree. When military operations claim civilian lives, "it really does set us back," Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters on Aug. 28 while discussing the Azizabad operation. "So we work exceptionally hard to make sure that doesn't happen...
...Broad Institute, a unique joint effort between Harvard and MIT to bring genome-based information to medicine, received a $400 million gift from founding benefactors Eli and Edythe L. Broad. The gift marked the fourth anniversary of the institute...
...village in Bajaur agency instead. Pakistan's foreign ministry released a statement calling the U.S. attack in South Waziristan "a gross violation of Pakistani territory" and said that it caused an "immense loss of civilian life" and that "Such actions are counter-productive and certainly do not help our joint efforts to fight terrorism. On the contrary, they undermine the very basis of cooperation and may fuel the fire of hatred and violence." Major General Athar Abbas, chief spokesman for the Pakistani military, blamed NATO-led American troops, saying, "We strongly object to the incursion of ISAF troops on Pakistani...
...into the Iraqi government security forces. But the predominantly Shi'ite government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has largely shunned the groups and lately taken an even harder line against them. Iraqi security forces have arrested multiple Awakening leaders and disbanded some of the bands. For a time joint patrols and checkpoints involving both Iraqi security forces and Awakening fighters allowed the groups to function essentially as paramilitaries alongside the Iraqi army and police. But the growing strength of Iraqi security forces has led them to begin undertaking what would once have been joint operations on their own. Moreover...