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...undergraduate counterparts weren’t demonstrating their Harvard affiliation quite so openly, but they were just as vocal about their opposition to President Bush’s policies. “We’re marching because we’re Americans, and our future is at stake,” said Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, a national organizer for the National Youth Institute and Peace Coalition...
...state-backed bank designed to overhaul Japan's most hapless companies. Meanwhile, U.S. retailing juggernaut Wal-Mart, which already owns 38% of Japanese retailer Seiyu and is looking for a greater presence in the country, has met with the IRCJ and confirmed that it is interested in taking a stake in Daiei...
Intriguingly, Sony is the only major digital-camera maker without a traditional film background. Ishizuka, 45, considers that the company's greatest advantage. With no stake in the 35-mm-camera market to protect, Sony was able to apply a fresh approach as consumers began switching to digital...
...takeover bid against Slavneft. Russia's seventh-largest oil company is now co-owned by YukosSibneft and TNK-BP, a Russian-British holding company. But with Sibneft slowly unwinding its merger with the embattled Yukos, Sechin-led Rosneft may be in the best position to buy Sibneft's stake in Slavneft. "If Sechin can pull it off, and if he sorts it out with BP," Delyagin says, "it will spell a decisive victory for Putin. The key point is taking oil under informal but tight Kremlin control, rather than launching a formally state-owned concern," which would scare off foreign...
MIDDLE EAST IRAQ: The government, the U.S. and Moqtada al-Sadr have much at stake in the battle for Najaf...