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...wait for China to put too many of its state assets on the block. It still limits foreign participation in anything it considers sensitive. Foreigners may own only 50% of domestic auto plants, for example, and they aren't allowed to buy outright a Chinese insurer, bank or brokerage. In addition, most state enterprises structure their listings so that shareholders never exert real control. A plum company like PetroChina, for instance, is immune to shareholder meddling because only about 10% of its shares are listed overseas...
...three of four to tie Dartmouth in the standings at season’s end. There is no tiebreaker based on head-to-head record, so the teams would have to play the division title out. If the Crimson sweeps, it will take the Red Rolfe division outright...
...words as a call to furtively spread fundamentalist Islam in society under the cover of modernism and integration. Critics have denounced as anti-Semitic Ramadan's recent critique of "Jewish French intellectual" reaction to the intifadeh. They were appalled when he suggested last year a "moratorium," rather than an outright ban, on the stoning of adulterers in order to consider the legitimacy of the act. (In 2003, his Islamist brother Hani was dismissed as a schoolteacher after defending the stoning of women in Le Monde...
...rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam clashed in the eastern Batticaloa district, threatening the 2002 cease-fire between the government and the Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find new coalition partners. Neck and Neck INDONESIA Preliminary results from the parliamentary election showed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the former ruling Golkar party battling for first place with about 20% of the vote each. The apparent erosion...
...Above and beyond listing each and every one of their closest 400 friends, committed facebook users—those in committed relationship, not those who commit their precious hours to the site—now have the option of designating exactly who that one special friend is, by naming outright who they’re “in a relationship” with...