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...Colgate (CL) has "side-stepped the global slowdown" as MarketWatch recently wrote. In the most recent quarter the company's profits were up 20%. It would be hard to pick a better time to sell toothpaste, pet food, and shampoo. Even in a bad economy, most of these are products will have stable sales...
...Corinthian College (COCO) shares are up well over 100% this year. It is another highly successful company in the education field which should benefit from the need of people out of work to develop new skills. In the most recent quarter, the company's profits rose 86% and it increased its forecast for the current year. The firm's CEO recently said "Although difficult to quantify, current trends indicate that the recession has helped increase marketing leads and student enrollment." It sounds like Corinthian may be hiring. On-line education is definitely in the boom phase of expansion...
...another Lampoon officer, then took over and read what he claimed was a historical document he found at Widener Library. The work was called “A Guide for the Freshman of this College” and featured rules for proper freshman behavior. It also appeared in a recent issue of the Lampoon. The Harvard Book Store was pleased to host the event, said Heather Gain, marketing manager of the shop. “We’re such close neighbors here, just on opposite ends of Plympton Street,” she said of the Lampoon...
...recent instability along Pakistan's Western border with Afghanistan, as well as a series of abductions of Chinese nationals, could lead China to look elsewhere for more reliable friends in the region - allies who can at least guarantee some sort of stability for China to pursue its strategic and economic interests. "Pakistan today needs China more than China needs Pakistan - that is why there is more enthusiasm in Pakistan about its relations with China than vice-versa," says Shabbir Cheema, director of the Asia-Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative...
...regime's pressure on opponents and critics. Within the last two weeks, for example, Egyptian state security agents reportedly detained and held without charge for four days an Egyptian-German blogger, Philip Rizk, who had protested what he saw as the regime's inadequate support of Paletinians during the recent Gaza conflict with Israel. Human Rights Watch has denounced Egypt's "appalling domestic rights record," citing alleged "torture in police stations, arbitrary arrests of non-violent dissidents and crippling restrictions on civil society organizations." Rights groups have also criticized Egypt's state of emergency, which has remained in force throughout...