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...American soldier. "The kidnapping [of the Japanese] is an attack on the U.S.-led coalition," says Chiharu Takenaka, a professor of international politics at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama. "They know that America is too strong for them to deal with, so they're cutting off the weakest link...
...travel by motor scooter, the rebels then anointed a new board made up of unemployed executives, retirees, a sociologist and one man under investigation for money laundering (which he denies). Welcome to shareholder activism, French style. Their prize: the company that built and operates the Channel Tunnel, the rail link beneath the English Channel that was hailed upon its 1986 launch as Europe's largest privately funded infrastructure project. When the stock was introduced in 1987 at the equivalent of €5.33 per share, thousands of investors bought stakes in a transport monopoly serving two of Europe's largest economies...
...wait—the telling of this story makes a number of assumptions. In playing counterfactual history this way, we link a sequence of events without establishing their necessary connections. And, no matter how grateful I may be for the opportunities that the British empire afforded, I cannot say that it justifies the imperial project...
...Surely 9/11 must be the worst possible thing for Bush to use in his campaign! No link between al-Qaeda and Iraq has been proved, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Iraq is in terrible shape because of the war, and the Madrid attacks show that the terrorists' resolve has strengthened. How could the issue of 9/11 boost Bush's re-election prospects? Sarah Van Ingelgom Hong Kong...
Cigarettes and booze often share each other's company, and Duke University scientists believe they have found a physiological reason why. Even a small amount of alcohol seems to significantly boost the pleasurable effects of nicotine. The researchers are testing drugs that can break this link, hoping to find a treatment that can help people kick both addictions. That's good news, considering that 80% to 90% of alcoholics smoke and alcoholism is 10 times as prevalent among smokers as among nonsmokers...