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...rescue packages down the road. No bank operating in the region is immune. "This is a systemic crisis where everything gets sold," says Simon Maughan, an analyst at brokerage MF Global in London. "It doesn't matter whether you are less exposed to Hungary and more exposed to Poland. Eventually it's going to catch up with everybody...
With the United Nations' annual climate-change summit set for Poland in December - less than a month after the U.S. elects a new President - European leadership will be more important than ever. Overall, the political will seems intact: in the face of strong opposition from energy-intensive industries, the environment committee of the European Parliament earlier this month voted to require most electric utilities to buy all their carbon permits after 2012. (Currently, most European governments give their permits away; selling them should speed carbon reductions and boost alternative-energy development but will cost more.) Those proposals still need...
...President will be faced immediately with the U.N.'s annual climate change summit, which occurs this December in Poland before he takes office. Still, the best way to signal both to the U.S. and the rest of the world that the White House is getting greener would be to send a high-level delegation along - or even stop by himself. It's important to realize that much of the rest of the world's disdain for America originates in Bush's apparent contempt for international climate action, first indicated by his withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol process not long after...
...performance of the National Anthem by the Dartmouth Band was a stirring rendition with all the finest instruments...namely a guy wailing on a huge Poland Springs water cooler with a mallet...
...Disney's deft globalization policy. The company left the tunes and story intact worldwide but added local flavor by region. Disney's basic marketing formula for the film's release abroad: find a local star to serve as a bridge between the Disney content and the local market. In Poland, fans watch HSM videos that splice together scenes from the original movie dubbed by fresh-faced Polish pop stars. On Israel's Disney Channel, a Gabriella lookalike sings soulfully in Hebrew. In India, the entire sound track has been re-recorded in Hindi, with Indian instruments - the tabla and dholak...