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Almost 1,000 students and faculty with hopes of witnessing history lotteried for tickets to an address next week by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao...
...What do you think are the effects of Mike being a premier member of the Canadian club? Do you think you have a strong Canadian constituency...
Executives' walls are being replaced with glass panels at the Park Avenue headquarters of the Blackstone Group, one of the U.S.'s premier private investment and advisory firms. That's because Hamilton James, 52, who stepped into the firm's No. 3 position a year ago from Credit Suisse First Boston, wants to encourage "openness and connection, that we're all in this together"--the kind of culture he remembers from his 25 years at investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Blackstone is a powerhouse, with $14 billion raised for private-equity investment, including a recent move into the pub division...
...Land of the Rising Sun, Matsui is considered the best everyday player. The 28-year-old switch-hitter-who is not related to Yankees leftfielder Hideki Matsui (whose 1.88-m, 95-kg frame and status as Japan's premier power hitter led to Kazuo's being dubbed Little Matsui)-has won four Gold Gloves, batted better than .300 for seven straight years, hit at least 20 homers in each of the past four seasons and stolen 30 or more bases five times. In a millennium poll, fans voted him the greatest Japanese shortstop ever. He was 24 at the time...
...companies heeded her call in the 1990s to sever ties with Burma because foreign investment lends legitimacy and economic support to the junta. In 1997, Congress outlawed all new U.S. investment there, and President Bush imposed further sanctions this summer. Many European companies have also pulled out, including Premier Oil, the French hotel chain Accor and, last month, British American Tobacco. Total and Unocal argue that their presence has a positive effect. Infant mortality in the pipeline vicinity is one-fourth the national average, they say, and such social indicators as school attendance and employment have gone up. Total itself...