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...Palestinians are not only angry at Israel, but also at the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its security forces for failing to protect those waging the intifada against the Israelis. The PA was the big loser on the streets this week. It makes them look bad when Israel can simply swoop in and do something like this. That's why the trial and sentencing of these accused collaborators was moved forward and hurried through, because there had been mobs gathered outside the jail trying to get in and lynch them...
...What could help is a flood of foreign investment. Japan has been notoriously resistant to outsiders and their bucks, but recently it has even allowed American vulture capital firms like Ripplewood to swoop in and pick apart its failed institutions. The next step, say investors, is legislation that insists local companies hew to greater accounting transparency. In Japan, corporations don't have to air all their dirty financial laundry to shareholders, as they do in the U.S.; a money-losing division can be hidden away as a "subsidiary" and assets can be listed at inflated values. A hint of change...
...Getting our bikini on Kate Moss cut the average age of our customers 30 years in one fell swoop," said Rose Marie Bravo, the voluble American who has steered the British Burberry brand for the past four years. Call it a billion-dollar bikini. Analysts valued Burberry at $280 million this time last year. Burberry's IPO, which is set to launch in mid-2002, anticipates a value of as much as $2.8 billion...
...wouldn't put someone in a cage with a tiger and go, oh he's just mild mannered. You would still have the tiger wrangler. Something. Here's a pair of knee high boots with a steel thing. Not like swoop around here so we can get a better photo and pretending that it nipped him on the toe. If they don't spend some of all of this money they have quadrupled for some kind educational program so they can educate the zookeepers about how to handle situations, I just can't even imagine what to say next...
...Typically, these hoodlums bribe police and hospital officials for information about critically ill patients, traffic accidents or shootings. When they receive word of a fatality, they swoop in to claim the body and begin preparations for the funeral, even before relatives have been notified. There have been several cases of funeral companies whisking away cadavers only to discover later that the bodies are still breathing. Often, accident sites and hospital emergency rooms become the scenes of bloody brawls as morticians battle over access to the deceased. When family members arrive to claim their loved ones, they are presented with...