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...while, maybe for another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year." So confident are the assembled san hu that they don't even consider trading to be serious business. Instead, they use wan, the Chinese word for "play," to describe their activity. If the market tanks, the san hu won't be the first to discover that investing is not a game...
Then Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin, Russia got serious, and the Moscow-to-Zurich run lost its cachet...
...closed session, according to several people familiar with the proceedings, the British officials sketched out details of the case: the Serious Fraud Office (sfo) had uncovered various strands of alleged corruption at BAE Systems, a U.K. defense contractor, including one that allegedly involved a member of the Saudi royal family. (The company denies any wrongdoing.) But, the officials continued, the fraud office's director in London had decided to discontinue the investigation after several meetings with the British ambassador in Saudi Arabia . The reason given: national security...
...meeting closed with a published statement expressing the "serious concerns" of the other governments represented with what had happened - and a requirement that Britain explain itself more fully, this time in writing, before another meeting in mid- March. The British government won't comment on what happened in Paris , but Attorney General Lord Goldsmith told Parliament that dropping the case "does not mean that we are backing off in any way from our commitment to tackling international corruption...
...about none of the above? It should be obvious by now that the Bush Administration's attempt to inflate a serious long-term conflict with the forces of radical Islam into a Global War on Terror has been a monumental strategic mistake. But there was little sympathy for figuring out an intelligent way to disengage from Iraq and refocus attention on the broader conflict. My esteemed colleague William Kristol, whose latest column appears on the next page, easily won the crowd with his argument favoring Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq, though not without a few bumps. Kristol, normally...