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...trying to lay down an informal road map for increasing SWF transparency. At the October G-7 meeting, with support from the other participants, Washington urged SWFs to make public their annual reports, to offer detailed descriptions of their investment philosophies, and to provide assurances that good returns - and not murky foreign-policy objectives - are what's driving them. In other words, it wants the new kids on the block to be more like Norway. Oslo's Government Pension Fund - International, which invests up to 60% of its $353 billion under management in equities, has money in 3,500 companies...
...brother, and explained that Mitchell had passed away that day—then laughed. “Just kidding! I’m Bob.” The multi-talented Mitchell might show a customer how a water filter he has patented works by folding up an 18th century map, or perhaps have the customer try on the emergency parachute that he keeps in the front of the store, but his life in the Square hasn’t been all fun and games. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Before you begin reading this, please have before you on screen, paper, or wall, a reliable full-scale map of the Middle East, one stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan, from the Caspian Sea to the Gulf of Aden. You will note that the territory covering 5.25 million miles belongs to states of the Arab League—18 independent Arab states and three part-Arab Muslim states, Mauritania, Somalia, and Djibouti. There is one holdout in that hegemony: Along the Mediterranean, south of Lebanon, east of Egypt, and west of Jordan, is the 8,000 square mile Jewish state...
...tournament,” Weiss said. “Unfortunately, he didn’t get the experience he would’ve gotten with more matches. We’ll see a doctor and get a prognosis, but he’s off the map for a couple of weeks.” Freshman Shay Warren notched two wins at 133 lb. Senior Jonathan Butler (197 lb.) and sophomores Frankie Colletta (174 lb.) and Andrew Knapp (285 lb.) each recorded a victory for the Crimson. Harvard commences its dual-meet season at Hofstra on Sunday. —Staff...
...There is the case of Graham Greene, who after Balliol chose not to join his family business. After an uninspiring spell in journalism, he decided to go into the Liberian interior. At the time Liberia was a large white space on the map marked “cannibals...