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...last year nullified a $180 million loan made by a syndicate of foreign lenders to property developer Danareksa Jakarta International to construct the Jakarta Stock Exchange building, saying the loan circumvented Indonesian borrowing laws and therefore need not be repaid. The creditors are appealing, but one, U.S. investment firm Lone Star, is so fed up that it has vowed not to pursue new business in Indonesia. "Indonesia is never really going to get foreign investment back in any meaningful way unless it reforms its legal system," says Richard Smith, president director of Hudson Advisors Indonesia, which manages Lone Star...
Dawn is breaking over a crowded neighborhood in Madras, and the murmur of early-morning prayers is dispersing the stillness of the night. A solitary light shines from the ground floor of a three-story house. Inside, a lone, curly-haired figure sits at a vast mixing desk, fingers skating across the controls. A.R. Rahman's work is almost finished. For as long as he can remember, Asia's most successful composer has slept through the noise of the day and composed in the silence of the night. And the past eight hours have been especially productive: Rahman has completed...
After more impressive play left Chiampa alone in first place, her fortunes began to shift as she recorded consecutive bogeys on the 15th and 16th holes. But the lone senior on the team was unfazed by the slip-ups, as she sunk a birdie on the 17th hole before firing “the three-wood of her life” on the 18th, leaving the ball just 10 feet from...
...real professional, the kind of hero who can inventively fashion an explosive suppository and staunch severed-finger wounds with an automobile cigarette lighter. (Walken, with the not-quite-provoked manic intensity that has made him a cult figure, enthusiastically tells the film’s lone honest cop that Washington is “an artist of violence who is about to paint his masterpiece” before one such scene.) Still, he is only cruel when it is necessary to draw out the next line in the kidnapping chain; the kidnappers’ villainy is constant, conveniently making sure...
...Lance Salsgiver to come in from right field to close out tight games this weekend. The hard-throwing right-hander, who was predicted to be the team’s closer at the start of the season, pitched three stellar innings of relief in the Crimson’s lone win in New Haven, and also saw an inning of work in the Beanpot consolation game...