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...What could be bad for domestic businesses is welcomed by many Vietnamese consumers. Le To Nga, 65, lived through the Vietnam War and stood in line for ration cards in the 1980s. Today, she's happily filling her shopping cart at Big C, a vast new supermarket on Hanoi's outskirts run by France's Casino Group in a joint venture with a local company. Shopping "is not a matter of patriotism at all," Nga says. "These days, we just buy what we like." Foreign giants entering Vietnam will likely create as many or more jobs than they'll destroy...
...game, BU made 61.5% of its threes, going 8 for 13 from beyond the arch. Last year, the Crimson had a hard time behind the arc-- it ranked seventh in the Ivy League last year in three-point field goal defense, allowing opponents to shoot 36.8 percent from downtown. Vast improvement was shown against Maine. Going up against a team with several athletic, talented shooters, Harvard forced the Black Bears to miss 15 of their 20 three-point attempts. One area the Crimson had problems with against Maine was on the glass. The Black Bears grabbed nineteen offensive rebounds, which...
...government's underreporting of executions reflects a general lack of transparency in the process. Hangings are conducted in secret, at a heavily fortified location in Baghdad built by an American contractor. Only a few officials are notified beforehand, and the vast majority of the names of those executed are never made public. Human Rights Watch, which monitors the fairness of judicial systems around the world, is concerned about the ability of defendants in Iraq to get a fair trial and access to a thorough appeals process. Iraq has repeatedly rebuffed requests from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner...
...surely pains the father that it has come to this. It is just as galling to the son that he had to invite his father's most trusted consiglieres to step in and help clean up his mess overseas. Neither man appreciates the chortling sounds coming from the vast Bush 41 crowd, which has long harbored grave doubts about the soundness of 43's foreign policy team. The biggest question is how the object of the intervention will react. As one senior official in the 41 White House says of the President, "He can fight this and turn into...
...Bush first approached Gates about joining his team more than a year ago, when he was looking for a new director of national intelligence. As a former CIA director, Gates found the offer tempting but declined after he decided that the job amounted to little more than overseeing a vast bureaucracy rather than running a real intelligence operation. Bush didn't offer the Pentagon job to Gates until early last week. A little cloak-and-dagger was used to sneak Gates onto the President's ranch for his job interview: he was instructed to meet White House chief of staff...