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...attacked him in a McDonald's on Aug. 19; in Hong Kong. Although no suspects have been named, Ho, a member of the Legislative Council and one of the city's best-known public figures, said the assault was likely related to his recent legal work involving land disputes, loan-sharking and debt collection. STEPPING DOWN. N.R. Narayana Murthy, 60, Chairman of Infosys Technologies, after 25 years at the helm of the company he helped found; in Bangalore. In 1981, Murthy and six other software engineers borrowed $250 from family members to start Infosys, today a $23 billion outsourcing giant...
...intends to shelve his promise to remove some Israeli settlers from the West Bank as part of a disengagement from the Palestinians. The reversal is a sign of a new reality: after the Lebanon fiasco, Olmert doesn't have enough popular support for any plan that would give back land without something in return. If Olmert decides to make a scapegoat of Defense Minister Amir Peretz, the Labor Party may leave the coalition government. To remain in power, Olmert would then have to bring a right-wing party into the government, but the right opposes any concession to the Palestinians...
...says he was originally drawn to explosives as a form of "liberation from [the] social and artistic pressures" of living in China. He worries that true originality is still lacking in his native land: "We have a long and very difficult road ahead of us." --By David...
...tall tales you might hear while holidaying in Australia-a land whose residents famously love to regale visitors with made-up stories-perhaps the tallest of all will be the one you hear in Murchison Station House, a 200,000-hectare sheep farm in the Western Australian outback. There you will be told that everything you see once belonged to Mukarram Jah, the eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, and that it was all seized when he failed to pay his debts. You may be inclined to laugh when you hear this. How could Jah, the grandest of Indian kings, inheritor...
Qazi Liaqat Zamir, a relative of airline-terror suspect Rashid Rauf, stands next to a brand-new Jeep 4x4 outside a 6-bedroom house in Haveli Beghal village. The house, a technicolor confection of terraced concrete, is surrounded by several acres of empty land, and two Toyota Corollas are parked outside. Completing the picture of prosperity, Zamir pets a thoroughbred greyhound standing by his feet. Zamir smiles looking out over his property, and with a sweeping gesture of his hand says, "All this is because of England." England, of course, is where his relative Rauf, now in custody in Pakistan...