Hints and tips:
...The new film over-dwells a little on school-age Parker, romancing Emma Stone’s Gwen (the cast’s letdown, a gooey-eyed bimbo who needs quirkiness lessons from predecessor Kirsten Dunst)....
...King Abdullah II’s latest move amid weeks of street protests across Jordan marks his biggest attempt to calm mounting disaffection, reports the FT....
...S&P cut its ratings on Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and Libya this year citing heightened risks and placed all under review for further downgrades....
...In the wake of the Tunisian president’s ouster, Egyptian and Yemeni leaders said they would not seek re-election, and Jordan’s king replaced his government this week in efforts to curb unrest....
...Kenya and Cameroon lead his top 10 potential hot spots, followed by Pakistan, Nigeria, Indonesia, Morocco, Jordan and Azerbaijan....
...Goldman and CDR are acquiring HGI Holdings from its controlling shareholder, Chicago buy-out firm The Jordan Company, and the Harrington family, which founded HGI and maintained a minority stake....
...I mean, pop stars do it (Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani); actors do it (Lindsay Lohan, John Malkovich); athletes do it (Michael Jordan, Venus Williams); even C-list royals and pop culture writers do it...
...Of 114 films to be screened at TIFF this year,15 are in competition for the $50,000 “Sakura” grand prize and a range of other prizes, to be selected by a jury chaired by film director Neil Jordan....
...Paris, which has signed nuclear-partnership agreements with Algeria and Libya, is close to deals with Morocco and Qatar and is talking with Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia about nuclear co-operation...
...The replication of WEF in countries as far flung as Australia, Jordan and China is another matter....
...The combined earnings of the world’s top 25 hedge fund managers of almost $15bn exceeded the national income of Jordan last year and three individuals took home more than $1bn each, according to an annual...
...Dealmakers such as Ed Kaufman, who left UBS in March for Alfa Bank, and Nicholas Jordan, who will run Lehman Brothers’s new Moscow office, are offered $7m and more a year, industry recruiters said....
...The company, which has a vast investment portfolio and interests in real estate, said the $5bn fund-raising, led by BNP Paribas with Saudi Arabia’s Samba Financial Group and Jordan’s Arab Bank, would be...
...When singer Gwen Stefani and husband Gavin Rossdale named their new-born baby boy Zuma Nesta Rock a few weeks ago, they were following a well-established pattern....
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