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...Rompuy recognized that the wider European public sees him as an unknown quantity, and he addressed it head-on after the summit. "There has been a great deal of talk and comment about the future profile and image of the President of the Council," he said. "But the key things are dialogue, unity and action: the image of the Council resides in strength through results...
...quote the country's official tourism slogan, Lee's Malaysia is truly segregated. The film won the silver prize in the Hong Kong International Film Festival's Asian Digital Competition. Too bad the miniDV shooting format, and timid distributors, will keep this instant noir classic from getting the wider response it deserves...
...words should be music to the world's ears. As debt-laden consumers in the U.S. retrench, increasingly wealthy Chinese consumers could become one of the most important sources of growth for the global economy. Shoppers in China are opening their newly stuffed wallets wider than ever. Passenger car sales surged 76% in October from a year earlier, while overall retail sales jumped 16.2%. Such spending has contributed to China's robust recovery from the global economic crisis. Gross domestic product grew a hefty 8.9% in the third quarter from a year earlier. (See TIME's photoessay "The Making...
Electronics giant Best Buy isn't taking the challenge sitting down. Vitelli says his company is ready to match prices offered by Walmart and other retailers. "We watch everybody," he says. "We're competitive with them dollar for dollar." Best Buy offers a wider and deeper assortment of electronic products and services than many competitors, Vitelli notes, giving...
...government's caving in to Hizballah and Syria will have its consequences: most importantly it's a message to those in Lebanon - and the wider Middle East - who put their trust in the U.S. and political reform that guns are still more powerful than votes. Watching the Syrian-backed opposition hamstring the investigation into his father's murder will have been a bitter pill for Hariri and his followers to swallow. When the time comes to settle scores, they may be more likely to choose bullets rather than ballots...