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...Barclays - who backed out of talks over a possible takeover of troubled Lehman Brothers last weekend - lavished a similar sum for the naming rights to the New Jersey Nets' planned Brooklyn basketball arena. If that sounds risky, consider its exposure in its home market: the U.K. bank is the proud sponsor of the English Premier League...
Russia and the West In getting it wrong, Samantha Power gets it more right than ever [Aug. 25]. Of course Putin is the real driving force of Russian aggression, and not his mouthpiece President Medvedev. While being rightly proud of its recent astonishing development, Russia is at the same time on the brink of a tour of conquest to restore its lost empire. We all know what happened the last time it did so: this Georgian adventure will not be its last. Maarten Molenaar, VEENENDAAL, THE NETHERLANDS...
...kill on the ensuing play, BC’s Brennan Clark then aced her serve and finished the game. “We were up neck-and-neck with them and fought as a team together,” McKinley said. “I’m really proud of our effort tonight. I saw good signals of where we want to be.” —Staff writer Emmett Kistler can be reached at ekistler@fas.harvard.edu...
...they’ve been there,” Leone said. “They know to be composed, to believe that they can do it, and they did that. It was an end-to-end game, an exhausting game, so I’m very proud of them.” —Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...
...Middle Kingdom. Note that China's regional bloc with the Central Asian nations - the People's Republic's only formal attempt at international alliance-making - is called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Of course it's simply named for the city where it was inaugurated, but the point for proud locals is that the Chinese government chose to host an important international security summit in Shanghai rather than in the capital...