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...That was a studio prop,” Wilson says. “Cecil Beaton, a very fashionable man who designed the costumes for My Fair Lady, was also photographed in that sweater...
...Chinese investors have long had a habit of relying on the government to prop up the market. Indeed, CSRC officials have been known in the past to summon brokers to meetings and "advise" them to buy stocks when the market dipped too far. Given this tradition of official intervention, investors have learned to base their buying decisions not on whether they think a company's profits will grow in the long term but on what they think the next governmental policy will be. Thus stocks tank every time the CSRC announces plans to let listed state enterprises sell more...
...These upstart oil-exporting nations join such established giants as Nigeria, which plans to increase its daily output from 1.9 million bbl. to more than 3 million bbl.; Angola, which wants to double its almost 1 million bbl. daily output; and Gabon, which is encouraging more deepwater exploration to prop up declining production. All this action makes the waters off West Africa one of the hottest places for oil exploration in the world. Says Al Stanton, an oil analyst with Deutsche Bank: "The opportunities for expansion are tremendous...
...unlike any of Bryson's previous work in both subject matter and tone, but it is still sprinkled with amusing anecdotes. There's a hair-raising encounter on a terrifyingly unstable train to Mombasa - dubbed the Lunatic Express by locals - and a storm-buffeted flight over Nairobi in a prop plane. The pilot, Bryson writes, "was bobbing about ... like someone ... being attacked by fire ants." The best travel writing, Bryson says, "makes people interested in the experience you've had, and that's harder than folks think." This, he is careful to point out, is not the same as being...
...serious international player. Over the past two weeks, Chirac forced the Bush Administration toward a weaker U.N. resolution on Iraq; he bushwhacked would-be reformers of the E.U.'s costly Common Agricultural Policy (cap), thus preserving lucrative subsidies for French farmers. In September he sent troops to Africa to prop up a threatened regime in France's former colony, Ivory Coast. These days, Chirac is riding the range with even more gusto than the Texan in the White House. The man does not lack confidence. Chirac wants France - and himself - to be seen as an alternative to American power. Like...