The dust has finally settled on Spain’s post-World Cup celebrations. The bunting has come down, the litter finally cleared away from the banks of the Manzanares where more than half-a-million people welcomed the team on the their return to Spain and most hangovers have receded, even if many football fans across the country are still walking [...]
Continue readingSAN FRANCISCO — Billionaire Larry Ellison is blasting Hewlett-Packard’s decision to oust CEO Mark Hurd as cowardly and the worst personnel decision since Apple forced out Steve Jobs 25 years ago. Ellison, Oracle’s CEO and a friend of Hurd’s, issued a statement Monday saying that the move to get rid of Hurd went against the [...]
Continue readingLONDON — World markets fell Tuesday as further signs of a slowdown in China’s economy emerged ahead of a key policy statement from the U.S. Federal Reserve. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British closed down 34.11 points, or 0.6 percent, at 5,376.41 while Germany’s DAX fell 65.35 points, or 1 percent, to [...]
Continue readingBack in early 2007, when the Bush administration was insisting that its military intervention in a faraway land was not open-ended, Senator Barack Obama wasn’t buying it. So the freshman from Illinois used then-secretary of state Condoleeza Rice’s appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as an opportunity to raise some probing questions about the [...]
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