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Snoopy sniffs an opportunity
Economist
AIG reluctantly hands its crown as America’s global life insurer to MetLife ANOTHER week, another opportunity for AIG’s rivals to expand at the American insurer’s expense. Days after sealing a $35.5 billion deal for its Asian life-insurance operations...
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The Massa Circus Takes the Air out of Glenn Beck
Time
In the course of his remarkable rise from cable sideshow to Fox News superstar, Glenn Beck has never really faced a serious challenge. To a man and woman, his opponents only made him stronger, strengthening his every-guy-against-the-world image...
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Accusations fly
Economist
Did protectionism force EADS to scrap a $35 billion bid to supply the American air force? THE announcement on Monday March 8th that Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS were pulling out of a bid for a...
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Is East Africa the Next Frontier for Oil?
Time
According to local lore, Portuguese travelers as far back as the late 19th century suspected oil might lie beneath parts of East Africa after noticing a thick, greasy sediment wash up on the shores of Mozambique. More interested...
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Picking a fight
Economist
Brazil fires another salvo in its dispute with America over cotton subsidies HOW serious is the decision by Brazil’s government, announced on Tuesday March 8th, to raise duties on a number of American-made imports? The increases are sizeable...
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Bloomberg and Baseball: The Perfect Match?
Time
A couple of years ago, a business-development guy at Bloomberg named Bo Moon was getting crushed in his fantasy-basketball league. So while commuting from New Jersey into Bloomberg's Manhattan offices, Moon and a car-pool colleague, Jay B. Lee,...
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Deadly reprisals
Economist
Sectarian violence kills hundreds in Nigeria THE number plates in Nigeria’s Plateau State declare it to be the “Home of Peace and Tourism”. This has seemed ever more optimistic in recent years, as the state capital, Jos, has...
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Beyond Sanctions: How to Solve the Iranian Riddle
Time
Iran is the 21st century equivalent of 1930s Russia - a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The Iranians haven't stumbled upon this mystifying state coincidentally, and the enigma isn't the result of outsiders' failure to...
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Defiant Iraqis
Economist
Counting begins after Iraq's modestly hopeful general election DESPITE a wave of violent attacks, millions of voters took part on Sunday March 7th in the second full parliamentary election in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. In a country...
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Even in Old Age, Men Want Sex More Than Women
Time
Spring is coming, and a young man's thoughts turn to ... you know. Apparently, old men's thoughts turn to the same subject. According to an article to be published Wednesday in the journal BMJ (British Medical Journal), 67%...
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