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...Some corporate deadbeats of a decade ago are back in the market for cash-and investors are happy to stump up, at rock-bottom rates, just as they were before. The risk premium that Asian borrowers have to pay is near historical lows. It's a worrying sign of global exuberance. Ironically, Asia has played a role in stoking dangerous imbalances in the global economy. Its 'dirty-peg' currencies, which ostensibly float but in fact are controlled by central banks, have kept exports higher and imports lower than they would be otherwise. In the case of China, with...
...craggy mountains flanking the Bekaa Valley, fresh Hizballah recruits are undergoing monthlong basic training sessions involving 20-mile (32-km) route marches with rifles, ammunition and rock-filled backpacks. A year ago, Salem, a university student and Hizballah militant, was spending alternate weeks patrolling Lebanon's southern border with Israel. Now he regularly enrolls for refresher training courses in the Bekaa. The training camps are hidden in remote wooded areas, with no permanent structures to give away their presence to Israeli jets and drones overhead. The fighters are taught how to strip, handle and shoot weapons, plant roadside bombs, navigate...
...Labour leader never kept a diary, unintentionally casting Campbell as his acerbic Boswell, whose journals reveal their serial encounters with Presidents and Premiers, royals and rock stars, lawmen and faith leaders, press barons and members of the public. That last category, "people outside the Westminster bubble," is the one to which the author appeals, over the heads of a media that both he and Blair have come to regard as irredeemably hostile. This, says Campbell, is the message he hopes his readers will take away with them: "During that period an awful lot happened, and some of it was unexpected...
...brand combining the brainpower of engineering with the excitement (not to mention the big money) of entrepreneurship, by playing up the accomplishments of IITans like Umang Gupta, CEO of the web services company Keynote and employee No. 17 of the company that later became Oracle. Gupta is a rock star to young IITans, who say he understands their desire to take what they know and build something bigger out of it. "Everybody wants to start a company," says Deepak Goel, a 1999 IIT graduate and design engineer at Microsoft...
...procession of the 47 client-airline CEOs with representative flight stewards, from All Nippon to Kenya Airways, kicked off the event. Boeing CEO Jim McNerney then spoke of the advantages of the new jetliner and introduced Brokaw, who called the 787 "a rock star of the future" and announced the 677 orders. The pixilated numbers appeared in story-high brilliance on each side of the stage and a roar overtook the building. The managers and workers of Boeing's supply partners who collaborated to develop the 787 joined the event via satellite from six locations, including Fuji, Kawasaki and Mitsubishi...