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...vapors; Dubai Ports World has now said that it will sell P&O's U.S. assets to an American buyer. Even in Britain, where the economy has been "Wimbledonized" for years (London has a great tennis tournament, but no Briton ever wins it) and where, says Robert Wade of the London School of Economics, there is "an unusually deeply held belief in the merits of free trade and free investment," there are limits. When Russian gas behemoth Gazprom started stalking the British supplier Centrica, officials let it be known that "any new ownership would face robust scrutiny." Put all those...
...Rockefeller Center, the foreign ownership of key domestic industries is promoting a backlash. "Countries are still trying to keep some poles of industrial strength within their economies," says Courtis. "I wouldn't have any problems whatsoever if the British apparel industry was taken over entirely by Bangladesh firms," Wade says. But as for "strategic industries" like energy, water, airports and aerospace, he continues, "then you do have to pay much more attention to the consequences of fast-growing foreign ownership...
Chandeliers of coconuts and glowing light bulbs dangled from the ceiling as “Guyton\Walker: Empire Strikes Back,” an installation by artists Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker, opened for a five-week exhibition at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts last night...
Should a man be forced to be a father if he doesn't want to be? Yet another front in the abortion wars reopens now that the National Center for Men has undertaken a crusade to establish a "Roe v. Wade for Men." "Up until now, reproductive choice has been seen as a woman's issue: you're either pro-life or pro-choice," says center Director Mel Feit. "We're adding another element. If we expect men to be responsible, isn't it right to give them some choices...
...larger philosophical argument is basically this: Do men have as much of a right to control their reproductive lives and financial futures as women do? "Roe v. Wade really changed the world for women," Feit says. "It allowed them to separate intimacy from procreation, freed them from the fear of contraceptive failure. That kind of empowerment and security that women feel in intimate relations - well, men can't, frankly." The only sure protection is total abstinence. Feit contends that men who don't want to have a child and made reasonable efforts to avoid it should at least be able...