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...Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported that a majority of Germany's 13 U.S.-listed firms wanted out of the hassle and cost of U.S. regulation. After meeting with German employer groups last week, Jones says British and German firms will be pushing U.S. regulators to make it easier to withdraw their U.S. listing. Directors, loosen those seat belts. Indicators Relinquishing Power The French government unveiled plans to privatize up to 30% of EDF, the world's largest power company, in a share offering next year set to raise up to 311 billion. The sale - the biggest-ever stock offering...
...stone security for Israel on his own terms. And the Prime Minister, says an aide to Sharon, does not anticipate a burst of pressure from the Bush Administration to change course now. He took Bush's comments last week as a green light to continue his plan to withdraw Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank unilaterally rather than enter into new negotiations with the Palestinians. "The Palestinian Authority doesn't become an automatic partner," says the aide, "just because it's conducting elections...
...school has only allowed the military on campus since 2002, when the government threatened to withdraw all funding to the University if HLS continued to enforce its non-discrimination policy against the military...
...Corporation denounces the South African apartheid system as “repugnant and inhumane” but announces that it will employ a system of proxy voting for partial divestment, asking the companies in which it invests to withdraw from South Africa. The Corporation rules out complete divestment as a “relatively ineffective means of pursuing ethical ends”; President Bok expresses reluctance to use the endowment as a political tool. The fight over divestment extends to the Board of Overseers and the Corporation, Harvard’s governing boards; professors, student groups, and alumni associations petition...
...polling stations in Fallujah, that fact alone may not be enough to encourage Sunni voters to turn out. Indeed, the operation in Fallujah strengthened calls to boycott the election by the Association of Muslim Scholars, an organization influential among Sunni clerics, and prompted the main Sunni political party to withdraw from the Allawi government...