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...told TIME. Of course, that's assuming Seifert's bid prevails. He has been playing a hurry-up game, but Furse wants to slow down - and encourage a bidding war that drives up the price. "I'm expecting one," says Olaf Kayser, an analyst at Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz. "The loser will fall behind and be in a difficult position." Deutsche Börse has offered $9.91 for each L.S.E. share, but that bid was spurned by the L.S.E. Analysts think the eventual price will be at least $11.20, which would drive the total price up to $2.78 billion. But Euronext...
...more aloof--Abbas does. At 45, Barghouti also has the backing of younger Fatah leaders who are pressing for longtime Arafat confidants like Abbas, 69, to reform the corrupt regime. Barghouti's candidacy threatens to produce a major split in Fatah that might lead to violence if an election loser challenges the results...
...name wasn't on the ballot, but Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian was the big loser in the island's legislative election last Saturday. Candidates from Chen's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party and its ally, the Taiwan Solidarity Union?known collectively as the "green" camp?won only 101 out of 225 seats in the fiercely fought contest. The winner: the "blue" Kuomintang- or KMT-led opposition, which favors eventual reunification with China, managed to retain a slim majority by securing 114 seats, just one more than it previously held. KMT chairman Lien Chan emerged from his office...
...Thesis Present. “Do you remember your old friend?” the second Ghost asks me as he points to the shower. “You used to be so clean, but look at you now—smelly, dirty, disheveled—a real loser. It’s the middle of November. You’ve been working hard, so hard that you forget to do basic things like brush your teeth. Your blue jeans are stiff from six continuous weeks of wear, and your Harvard hoodie reeks of curry chicken, last night?...
...some seats, it may not be enough for a green majority-in which case the DPP will be forced to horse-trade with independent legislators to carry out its agenda. However, at the Taoyuan rally, for 53-year-old steelworker Fan Cheng-hung the bigger worry is that the loser will be Taiwan. "We deserve a country," he says, "not the aggression of the world's superpowers...