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...Hong Kong, a series of questionable backroom transactions?including the proposed Boto deal?has so raised the ire of stock owners that Andrew Sheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, was forced to respond. His open letter to investors offered no succor. Sheng wrote ". . . if it is purely an issue of competence or a history of bad decision making impacting on value, and the rules have not been violated, the ultimate practical remedy for investors may be to sell...
...really should come as no surprise, after all, superheroes are what they do. For some this will come across as a gross commodification and trivialization of an awesome, unspeakable tragedy. These characters are arguably more corporate icons than meaningful characters - like seeing Ronald McDonald and the Keebler Elves giving succor to victim's families. But I think it is more complicated and interesting than that...
...suggest that vacation actually begins some time in the vicinity of that alluring circle on my calendar. Some dining halls close Tuesday night. Others close Wednesday night; still others after Thursday lunch. The most daring dining halls (Annenberg and Currier) will remain open through Thursday dinner in order to succor stranded, starving students...
About the only thing that Manila has in common with London is damp--that and a reputation for giving succor to terrorist supporters. Britain has always had a habit of providing safe haven to political refugees; that's why Karl Marx is buried in Highgate cemetery. But in the past 20 years, says Neil Partrick, a Middle East analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, London has become "the capital of the Arab world." As they used to say in Britain: Whoever lost the Lebanese civil war, London won it. With Beirut in ruins, banks relocated from Lebanon; they were...
...About the only thing that Manila has in common with London is damp-that and a reputation for giving succor to terrorist supporters. Britain has always had a habit of providing safe haven to political refugees; that's why Karl Marx is buried in Highgate cemetery. But in the past 20 years, says Neil Partrick, a Middle East analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, London has become "the capital of the Arab world." As they used to say in Britain: Whoever lost the Lebanese civil war, London won it. With Beirut in ruins, banks relocated from Lebanon; they were...