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...European governments dislike the idea of any familiar brand - from yogurt to automobiles - being swallowed up by foreigners, even if it's unusual for them to try to block such deals in the name of the national interest. With energy, though, the case for intervention is more compelling than usual. Energy affects almost every citizen and business, and when things go wrong the costs are felt more acutely than they are, say, in the insurance sector. Antonio López, Madrid-based director of analysis at Fortis Bank, argues that opposition to E.ON's cross-border dash for Endesa signals...
...Christian organizations that felt Wal-Mart was the last one taking a stand again the drug,? says Mona Williams, a spokeswoman for the company. Wal-Mart has been considering the change for months; at a meeting in January of store managers, several lobbied for adding Plan B to the usual stock, arguing that the majority of Wal-Mart customers are women and would appreciate having it available...
...stolen, and if you've stolen a lot of it, your problems multiply. More people know that there's hot money or goods around, so security is compromised; that gives fences the chance to demand a larger cut for laundering cash. Then the authorities offer a bigger than usual reward - in the Securitas case, $3.5 million, enough to turn the head of many villains, or villains' wives. Most dangerously, you have to physically shift the stolen goods - and the Tonbridge robbers had a lot of baggage to haul around. "If you have ?40 million in ?50 notes," says Jeffrey Robinson...
...voicing their opinions. And if the past week is any evidence, the student body has largely taken the opportunity to do this, with rapidly flowing blog posts, e-mail list missives, letters to campus newspapers, and grassroots political organization.The recent student awareness is a refreshing change from the usual political apathy of students, at least when it comes to campus politics. Harvard undergraduates, some of the brightest (and most opinionated) young minds in the world, are, on average, surprisingly uninformed of the goings-on in Mass. Hall and University Hall. Most students float from class to dining halls to sections...
...TIME: Is it usual that a president calls for another country to be wiped...