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...equation may be China, Burma's largest trading partner and ideological ally. But despite calls from the West for China to use economic leverage over Burma, it's not clear how much influence Beijing really has. "China will urge Myanmar to use peaceful means to solve the problem, [because] China would like to see a stable environment in Myanmar," says Zhai Kun, an expert on Southeast Asia at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing. "But because Myanmar is a closed society, I don't think they listen to advice from the outside, including China...
...next few months, Seinfeld will be making a brief yet very noticeable return to mass media, a comeback that began four years ago when he had dinner with director Steven Spielberg, a partner in DreamWorks SKG and a neighbor of Seinfeld's in New York's tony Hamptons. The star casually mentioned an idea for an animated movie to Spielberg. "A movie about bees," Seinfeld says he told the director, "called Bee Movie." (As in B movie, get it?) Spielberg then alerted his colleague Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation. This eventually led, in the way of Hollywood, to Seinfeld...
...hills of Rwanda have been teeming with thousands of bright green "coffee bikes," designed by mountain-bike maker Tom Ritchey with a lengthened frame to carry a sack of coffee. This isn't all about altruism. Illinois-based stock trader Dan Cooper, who set up Friends of Rwanda with partner Joe Ritchie to coordinate what he calls "this contagious enthusiasm," says: "You get the head of Texaco/Chevron calling Kagame and asking him: 'Can you help me with Ethiopia?'" Meanwhile in Washington, Kagame's new friends fixed him a meeting with the then House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert that helped...
...patients have now seen the advertising and want the new metal-on-metal hip. The president of my hospital wants it too - he asked me about it just weeks ago. He thinks the "cutting edge" thing would be good for the hospital's bottom line. Even my practice partner, who has personally implanted (and witnessed the early failures of) the old metal hip has started pushing me to do it, wondering if we might be losing patients, losing our reputation, by refusing...
Akula said the Grille will partner with party organizers, offering them a kickback for all Grille goods sold at the party, and also for any students who buy food at the Grille afterwards...