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With all the turmoil in the Middle East, few took much notice when Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris signed a deal last December involving a firm from a neighboring country. This was no routine transaction. Sawiris, CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding SAE, in Cairo, purchased 9.9% of Partner Telecommunications Co. Ltd., in Tel Aviv, considered to be the biggest investment, valued at $150 million, ever made in the Jewish state by an investor from an Arab country. Sawiris expected the rebukes he received from some fellow Arabs for doing business with Israelis even as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict still rages...
...trade rose 22% in 2005 compared with a 4% rise three years earlier. Last month an Arab trade-ministers meeting in Cairo took up the technical yet crucial issue of adopting common product standards. "There is a reshaping of the landscape," says Hassan Heikal, CEO of EFG-Hermes Holding SAE, a Cairo investment bank, over cocktails at the Four Seasons First Residence--itself the product of a partnership among a local investor, a Saudi prince and a Canadian hotel mogul. "There is a new breed of CEOs who are willing to go outside their own borders and take risks...
...Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon can boast of the highest GPA of any SAE chapter in the “province.” The province comprises the 11 SAE chapters in the Northeast area. Harvard SAE has an aggregated GPA of 3.48, beating other Ivy League schools such as Yale and Dartmouth. Dartmouth came in second with an average 3.40 GPA. Yale did not make the top three. The president of Harvard SAE, Nicolas A. Yannuzzi ’07, said he was thrilled to be the leader of the smartest SAE chapter in the region, but stressed...
...plans to give it more flexibility to move quickly to prevent chaos. South Korea objected, fearing that Washington might use the slightest wobble in the Pyongyang government as an excuse to invade. "The U.S. wants more power if it sees a need to intervene," says opposition lawmaker Kwon Yong Sae. "There will be conflict between the U.S. and South Korea if something like this happens...
...Song's ordeal is part of a rash of brutal incidents that have pushed school violence and gang activities to the top of the national agenda in South Korea. In a chilling report released at a police-sponsored symposium last month, high school teacher Jong Sae Yong claimed that as many as 400,000 kids?5% of the national student body?belong to loosely affiliated gangs. The gang members call themselves iljin ("top rankers") and are involved in organized bullying, extortion and sometimes sex crimes. The Education Ministry says Jong's findings are exaggerated, but officials established a task force...