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...leading fixed-line and cell-phone operator in the country where it started more than 150 years ago; the government is still the largest shareholder. But Telenor's influence extends well beyond the borders of Norway, a country of less than 5 million people. It's a big player in the telecom markets in Sweden and Denmark, and has quietly built up cell-phone operations in five Central and East European countries. More surprising, though, Telenor is building its future in Asia...
...been fruitful. "Telenor has developed one of the best portfolios of international assets" of all Europe's major telecom firms, analysts at Citigroup wrote in a recent note. Since Telenor took control of Malaysian operator DiGi in 2001, for example, that business has expanded "from a small, niche player to one of the driving forces in the market," says Espen Torgersen, telecoms analyst at Carnegie, a Nordic investment bank. Now the third largest cell-phone operator in Malaysia, DiGi's operating profits grew by a third last year to $454 million; subscriber numbers rose by a fifth to 6.4 million...
...broke out of a truly embarrassing slump over the weekend, but he did so against the Texas Rangers, the second-worst team in the Major Leagues. And even with that, Ortiz - whose big smile and clutch hitting over the past five years have made him arguably the most popular player in all of baseball - has hit just two home runs in 79 at bats and is batting a meager .177. Fewer than a dozen AL starters have worse numbers...
...self-confessed serve-and-volley player preparing for life after Harvard. The other, in the opinion of the first, possesses “one of the best returns in the country.” For the tennis tandem of senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov, however, it is the perfect combination...
...expansion continues. One year after electing two players as captains for just the fourth time in team history, the Harvard men’s hockey team continued the trend, naming juniors Brian McCafferty and Jimmy Fraser as captains for the 2008-09 squad at its annual awards banquet on Saturday. The team also added sophomore Alex Biega to the leadership ranks as an assistant captain. McCafferty and Fraser are the 114th and 115th captains in Crimson history, while Biega is the first to serve as an assistant since Tom Cavanagh and Ryan Lannon ’05 shared the role...