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...Once upon a time, when Maurice Flanagan was working at the airport in Nairobi, wet weather meant one thing: it was time to jump into his car and drive quickly up and down the clay runway. If his wheels got stuck, he would wave off any approaching airplane. He has come a long way. Now vice chairman and group president of Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, Flanagan is in charge of the globe's 14th largest and fifth-most-profitable airline. Under his watch, the once tiny, government-owned Emirates Airlines has been transformed, growing more than 20% a year...
...ethnic group in northwest China's Xinjiang province, was arrested in August 1999 and sentenced to eight years in prison for "providing secret information to foreigners." Her release came in advance of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Beijing. Kadeer immediately flew to the U.S. and, upon arrival in Washington, D.C., told a cheering crowd, "I will keep on fighting for my people until my last breath...
...That may depend upon how good Beijing thinks its chances are of winning a military confrontation that could pit China against the U.S. On paper, the mainland's 2.5 million-member People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.), the largest force in the world, holds an overwhelming advantage over tiny Taiwan. But the island has tougher coastal defenses than Normandy did, and China's relatively anemic navy is incapable of a full-scale invasion across the 160-km Taiwan Strait. Instead, the P.L.A. has been building up its arsenal in new ways, betting it could force Taiwan to capitulate quickly without...
...rather than implode, Colgate (24-10-3, 14-5-3) answered right back just 45 seconds later, converting on the aggressive, physical play in and around Harvard netminder Dov Grumet-Morris’ crease that they had relied upon so heavily throughout the evening. Raiders forward Adam Mitchell’s latest offering from the faceoff circle—earlier in the period he had found the crossbar from nearly the same spot and forced several spectacular saves in the subsequent scrum—caught Grumet-Morris awkwardly, sending the puck floating back above his head and into the crease...
...managed to flip the rebound into the top lefthand corner of the goal just before he and Mormina crashed into the net to knock it off its moorings, prompting an extended review of the tally by the officials. But like Johnson’s before it, the score stood upon a second look, giving the Crimson a 3-2 lead...