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...times have changed since 1945, so have the U.N.’s constituent countries. France and Britain have waned. China remains an undemocratic state. And yet these three remain entrenched in the Security Council. Why not Japan, the second-largest economy? Why not India, the largest democracy...
...buyers. The U.K.'s Scottish & Newcastle will soon have up to €3.25 billion to spend after selling off nearly 1,500 of its pubs later this year, and a year ago, South African Breweries (SAB) bought America's Miller Brewing Company to create SABMiller - now the world's second-largest brewer, and a company hungry for European expansion. That may have awakened Anheuser-Busch - No. 1 in the world, which has fat profit margins in the U.S., where it gets more than 80% of its sales. At one time, the company had ruled out European acquisitions, but rivals think...
...country. Cem Uzan's initial enterprise was to launch Turkey's first private TV channel, Star TV, together with Özal's son, Ahmet, in 1989. The privatization boom of the 1990s allowed the Uzans to expand into other media and utilities - and to build the country's second-largest mobile-phone carrier, Telsim. Family assets, according to Forbes magazine, now exceed $1.3 billion. And Cem Uzan heads the country's second-most popular political grouping, the Youth Party, which he founded in July last year as a vehicle for his own political ambitions. But as the Uzans' reach...
...Packet For A Packet British American Tobacco, the world's second-largest cigarette maker, snapped up Italy's state-owned tobacco company Ente Tabacchi Italiano for €2.3 billion, handing BAT a monopoly for cigarette distribution in Italy...
...Sept. 11 became paralyzed by fear, haunted by the prospect that unnamed terrorist foes might find an armed ally in Baghdad. Students ignored their own misgivings until the first full day of the invasion, when 1,500 students, faculty and members of the community finally came together in the second-largest campus protest in Harvard history, larger than any during Vietnam. But that confident opposition was an exception. In the months before war, as sabers rattled in Washington and world respect for the U.S. plummeted, students were too ambivalent...