Word: roundness
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...Possibly - but SWFs may want better deals. In the first round of recapitalization, SWFs took small (less than 10%) stakes in financial giants including UBS and Citigroup by purchasing preferred or convertible shares without voting rights. In return, the funds got fairly high interest payments and the chance to buy into institutions at what they thought were cheap prices. They've since suffered losses on the order of 30-50%. SWFs might be wary of coming back for more unless they get more control, along with greater opportunities for synergies between Western banks and their own domestic financial systems...
...esoteric and unfamiliar - neither of which applies to Ethiopiques, one of the hippest acts of the summer of 08 that recently played both London's high-tone Barbican theater and the rather more déclassé Glastonbury Festival. And even though the music is certainly not from round these parts, its hooks and grooves are ones any veteran soul-boy or jazzer can relate to: funky brass, swirling organ, growling sax, rippling congas, ecstatic vocals - this is not the sound of a national culture struggling to make itself heard over the global noise of pop. Rather, these are artists...
...good chance do a little shopping, take in some culture, and impress the folks back home. So it was for Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria (which was once ruled by France under a League of Nations Mandate). Over the past weekend, Syrian state television has been beaming round-the-clock images of the Syrian President and his tres chic First Lady making the scene in the City of Light: Bashar at a summit for Mediterranean leaders, Asma at the Louvre and Centre Pompidou, and both of them as official guests of French President Nicholas Sarkozy at Bastille...
...forced to "keep our eye on the nuclear ball and just keep negotiating, despite this incident," as one former diplomat put it. "We just have to make sure the North keeps its word [on the nuclear] deal," says the former six-party negotiator. "It's why the next round of negotiations [on verification] are so vital. It's that simple - and that complicated...
...cover story for the newspaper's magazine section about the case that included an extensive interview with Knox's family in Seattle. Titled "Free Foxy Knoxy," the story recounted the family's insistence that Amanda could never have been involved in such a heinous act and featured a new round of photographs from her teen years in Seattle. The correspondent for the British paper, John Follain, noted that Knox's younger sister Deanna looks strikingly similar to Amanda. Like her parents, the younger daughter was forthcoming with Follain about details of her sister's life and descriptions of her generally...