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...corruption and cronyism that, for the first time in four decades, resulted in the arrest of a cabinet minister, Kasitah Gaddam. Indicted in the same week was top businessman Eric Chia Eng Hock, a favorite of Mahathir who headed one of the then leader's pet projects, the Perwaja Steel Works. Abdullah also indefinitely postponed what would have been the country's biggest infrastructure project, a $3.8 billion replacement for the dilapidated railway system awarded by Mahathir in his final days in office to a consortium led by businessman Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary. "It's really been a shocker...
...fiddling and the idiosyncrasies of its producers, workers and consumers have closed off some areas to foreigners. As a superpower accounting for one-third of global production, the U.S. has natural protection for many of its industries. The entrenched power and influence of some sectors - such as auto making, steel and agriculture - have diminished America's claim to being a free trader. Now many of the barriers between the two countries will be ditched immediately; some will be taken down gradually. A few, such as those shielding American sugar farmers or Australian film and television producers, will stay...
...right beneath him in the second singles spot. Together, the pair is even more potent. Their ranking, which was No. 32 at the commencement of the season, is now No. 25. Chu and Lingman have defeated three doubles teams which are currently ranked, and they have shown nerves of steel, playing four tiebreaks in their seven decisions—and winning three...
...Calatrava wanted to be a sculptor, but an early encounter with the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sent him down the path of architecture (art is still his avocation--his Manhattan town house and his villa outside Zurich are filled with his abstract steel sculpture). Shortly after finishing his architecture studies he won a design competition for a train station in Zurich, and because he had taken the unusual step of getting a second degree in engineering, he soon found himself being sought out to design bridges throughout Europe, a job that ordinarily falls to engineers and rarely...
Fought either in an arena or a steel cage, these battles inevitably draw comparisons to World Wrestling Entertainment, as both are staged fights between grown men. But it is the undercurrent of self-parody that gives these fights their hipster gravitas against the Rock et al. When Kung-Fu Chicken Noodle, a giant chicken noodle can with arms, legs and a steak knife, goes up against Los Plantanos, the heroic Spanish banana twins, the pretense of seriousness is thin...