Author: Khoyetsian Rose

The Guardian / The Observer, UK
Oct 14 2007

Al deserves to be spared the curse of the Nobel

Jasper Gerard
Sunday October 14, 2007
The Observer

Celebrities have long warned of the ‘curse of Hello!’: you know, the
TV talent-show host grants the magazine a gawp at his beautiful new
hacienda near Chingford and his wife’s even more generously appointed
new breasts; then within days, he is caught auditioning Becki and
Nikki, a pair of local beauty therapists, and – bang! – he can’t even
get a gig on Strictly Come Dancing. The Nobel Peace Prize is becoming
a slightly posher version of this.

If there is a curse of Nobel, we should fear for Al Gore. American
and British climate-change deniers heckle and tell us just to look at
earlier recipients. Aung San Suu Kyi banged up under house arrest.
David Trimble, FW de Klerk et al could feature in that column ‘Where
are they now?’
The rest – Betty Williams, Rigoberta Menchu – would struggle to make
it into a feature titled ‘Who were they then?’ As for Yasser Arafat’s
peace prize – well, the award can seem more like a desperate plea
than a deserved reward.

The former Vice-President is certainly easy to mock. He looks like
he’s eaten too much lobster thermidor on the elder statesman circuit
and surely must be the first Nobel Prize winner to be berated by a
judge for factual inaccuracies. He has not apologised for
exaggerating, as if being on the ‘right’ side somehow frees him from
the need for rigour.

And you don’t have to be a climate-change denier to balk at all this
intercontinental back-slapping. Swells are never happier than doling
out baubles to their own, be they Nobels, Orders of the Garter or
stupendous book advances (penned your thank you note to Rupert yet,
Tony?). And if Gore is largely right, what’s to celebrate? Always one
sighs; why didn’t you do more when in power? On Kyoto, he never
persuaded Bill Clinton, let alone America.

Yet despite all that, sometimes we should accept received wisdom is
basically right. Isn’t it better Gore got people debating sea levels
and melting icecaps?

An Inconvenient Truth might contain convenient untruths and global
warming might be a greater chimera than global cooling. If so, we owe
deniers an apology. But to assume they are right and Gore wrong is
pretty brave, isn’t it? Where is the insurance if, by some miracle,
virtually the entire scientific community is proven right? I’ve read
countless books on this, yet wouldn’t dare pontificate on the
science. But the politics are obvious: with the stakes so high, Gore
is right to denounce those who say: ‘Carry on gas-guzzling.’

As a presidential candidate, Gore was a bit of a bore, not very
Hello!. He was cursed long before this prize and there seems little
chance of his following The West Wing’s Josiah Bartlet, a fictional
Nobel winner, into the White House. But even many of his fiercest
critics quietly wish the leader of the free world was President Gore,
not President Bush. So, finally, let’s applaud the man who refuses
merrily to kiss the world goodbye.

Oh dear, Donald’s been bunkered

Donald Trump’s Scottish golf course is being bunkered by a thoroughly
curmudgeonly farmer who refuses to sell his scruffy smallholding hard
by the second fairway. Good for him. There is something evil about
golf and, as for Trump, well, civilisation could probably take his
disappointment on the chin.

Trump, whose luxuriant thatch could surely stand in for a stretch of
gorse in the heavy rough off the long 14th should he be shy of the
odd acre, refuses to accept a polite ‘no’. Instead, he responds in
the only way he knows how: offering more money. He calls Michael
Forbes’s land ‘disgusting’, with ‘rusty tractors’. Well, yes, Donald,
it’s a farm. In a choice between rusty tractors and gleaming golf
buggies, give me tractors.

Yet increasingly, farmland is viewed as dead space waiting to be
turned into something useful. We hear this in the call to develop the
green belt; much of it, we are told, is ‘nondescript agricultural
land’. What is it meant to be? A giant, pornographic art
installation? An outdoor leisure facility to assist the al-Qaeda
youth training scheme? A polar bear sanctuary with dancing girls? If
only England had its Michael Forbeses so we could trump all the other
cynical little Donalds.

Accept the utility premise to determine land use and you can kiss
your countryside goodbye. Any development will always be judged more
‘useful’ than farmland, even a golf course.

Even if green-belt land never sprouts another turnip, it is still
worth keeping, because otherwise it will sprout concrete. Farmland
should be preserved because it is beautiful – rusty tractors and all.

Quick, screen the nurses …

Belief in the NHS is the nearest Britain comes to a religion and to
criticise nurses is blasphemous. Yet 90 people have died in my Kent
NHS Trust from a ‘superbug’ (bugs, like supermodels, are subject to
grade inflation), so could this be the time to question our faith?
Clearly, it would be grossly unfair to lay all blame on nurses, but
would you leave patients to wallow in excrement?

Florence Nightingale made ‘angels’ of an entire profession. Her image
of the sainted nurse is bolstered by Keira Knightley in Atonement; a
fresh generation of nurses stoically tending the wounded from yet
another war. Sentimentalising nurses continued in peacetime, but
strangely, this warm glow doesn’t extend to others who treat us,
dentists, say. To nurses, we ascribe the fibre of Mother Teresa and
the foxiness of Kylie Minogue. Think of a dentist and it’s Josef
Mengele meets Olivier’s psycho in Marathon Man.

Just the other day, at one of the now notorious hospitals, the Kent
and Sussex (‘Kent and snuff it’ to locals), my toddler wedged a
carrot so far up his nose we couldn’t retrieve it. The nurses were
keener on chatting than fixing my son’s admittedly minor ailment.

In a restaurant, we would complain; in a hospital, we shower our
obsequies. The Lady with the Lamp has much to answer for.

…because hospitals need a fast cure

The hospital, by the way, looks like one of those places where germ
warfare experiments took place in the Fifties. While hospitals I’ve
visited up north look so improved you could almost be somewhere first
world – Portugal, say – many down south resemble the stage set of a
disaster movie.

And this is why ministers must take ultimate responsibility. In a
sane country, hospital managers would be accountable to patients
rather than to Whitehall targets and money would be raised locally. A
new report shows taxpayers in the south east subsidise the rest of
the country by £2,400 each.

Redistribution was clearly necessary, but it’s no surprise that four
of the five primary care trusts with the lowest per capita spending
are in the SE. Voters are starting to notice they are paying, but
there is no pay-back. The middle-class labrador has rested
somnolently by the fire these new Labour years. No wonder it’s
starting to bark.

Remind me, what is the war on terror for?

The world is viewed through the prism of a war on terror. President
Bush dismisses the attempted slaughter of a people as a ticklish
detail. He rejects a historic Congressional decision to call Turkey’s
murder of 1.5 million Armenians ‘genocide’. And not because he denies
butchery took place; rather, Turkey is a key ally, so best let
sleeping Armenians lie. One sees his point, naturally. The friendship
of a Muslim nation provides cover. Plus nationalist Turks, successors
to the ‘young Turks’ who nearly snuffed out the Armenians, are
itching to invade northern Iraq. So best placate Turkey…

But what is the war on terror for? Isn’t it a response to a war of
terror, whose first shot was fired in 1915, when Turkey’s interior
minister ordered Armenians to be ‘terminated’? Why does the death of
3,000 in New York weigh heavier than 1.5 million? And if the war on
terror possesses moral as well as military force, shouldn’t it be
about principle as well as pragmatism?

Otherwise, aren’t we just the other side’s enemy combatant?
Guantanamo, rendition, detention: staring through the prism, we’ve
lost perspective.

So long and thanks for all that bigotry

Had Vlad the Impaler been British, by the time he toddled towards his
dotage, he would have been hailed as a national treasure. There is
nobody, it seems, over whom we won’t sigh: ‘Ah! They don’t make ’em
like that any more.’ Even Ann Widdecombe. The announcement of her
retirement has inspired profiles of ‘Dear Doris’. But in her time,
she has supported hanging, opposed equalising the age of consent for
‘buggers’ and pretty well anything done by single mothers, and
thought it humane to keep prisoners handcuffed while undergoing
surgery, though conceded it was a bit much when wardens chained a
woman who was giving birth.

A Conservative party with John Redwood at its heart evidently still
has far to travel, but let us celebrate that never again is someone
as intolerant as Widdecombe likely to be elected.

Sports betting previews, UK
Oct 13 2007

Armenia vs. Serbia – Preview

Armenia made few surprises in their last two matches, winning against
Poland and drawing with Portugal, both of these matches were played
at their home Republican stadium. Still I rate this team very low and
they won those matches mostly because their opponents underestimated
them. Armenia has only the pride to play for and they will play
without pressure and that is big plus for them. At home Armenia
showed like hard nut to crack in these qualifications and with
defending for whole match, they will, for sure, make troubles to the
Serbian team.

Serbia is currently on 4th position but they have played one match
less than first placed teams Finalnd and Poland and one point less
than big favorite Portugal, which means that this match is crucial to
them. Their coach said that he will start carefully with only one
striker upfront, Zigic or Lazovic, with Stankovic behind that
striker. They will try to score a goal with that formation and if
they fail to do so, in the second half we will se another attacker in
the line-up.

Manucharyan injured, Arzumanyan doubtful for Armenia, both are
important team players, and Serbia will be without Vidic their best
defender.

I believe that it won’t be easy match for Serbia at all, they had
already some slip-ups so far against weaker teams and the pressure
will be on their side. I think that Serbia has plenty of talented
players who can decide the match with individual effort. The
motivation should be their biggest advantage and I am on them today.

PanARMENIAN.Net

EAFJD: to pass in silence over Genocide becomes a serious act of
complicity with Turkish denials
13.10.2007 14:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ `We greet the political courage of the deputies of
the Foreign Affairs Committee which knew how to reject the cynicism of
Ankara’ declared Hilda Tchoboian, the President of the Euro-Armenian
Federation, and continued, `We also want to pay tribute to the
hundreds of American activists, organizations of defense of the human
rights, people from all religions, all minorities, and to the Armenian
organizations of the United States which carried out this struggle of
civilization against cruelty’.

The Euro-Armenian Federation points out that Mr. Babacan, with whom
Europe negotiates the accession of Turkey, recently threatened openly
the Jewish minority of Turkey because the United States Jewish
community supports the resolution H.R.106. It also informs that the
Prime Minister of Turkey, Mr Erdogan has asked the Turkish Parliament,
which is controlled by his party, the AKP, to authorize the invasion
of the North of Iraq in reprisal to the vote of the American
representatives. The U.S. State Department has issued a warning to the
American residents in Turkey of possible violence against them, the
EAFJD told PanARMENIAN.Net.

`These extreme and disproportionate measures show that the Turkish
government has a long way to go before reaching the values and use of
moderation which are those of Europe. They also prove that Turkey
which fallaciously sells to us that it is a factor of peace and
stability, in fact constitutes a regional threat’ continued the EAFJD
President.

`In the United States as in Europe, to pass in silence over the
Genocide becomes a serious act of complicity with the Turkish
denials. We expect the European Parliament to become, once again the
voice of conscience of Europe,’ concluded Hilda Tchoboian. The
Euro-Armenian Federation requests the European Parliament that it
demands, in all European acts and resolutions on Turkey, that the
latter stops its practice of denial. It announces that the 2nd
Convention of the Armenians of Europe which will be held in the
European Parliament on 15 and 16 October 2007, will pay tribute to the
European members of Parliament who voted, 20 years ago, the first
international recognition of the genocide. The session on the
afternoon of the 16th, will be dedicated to the topic of the
recognitions and the denials. Mr. Aram Hamparian, director of Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA) will give an account of the vote
in the American congress.

Hayots Ashkharh Daily, Armenia
Oct 13 2007

Our Nancy

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Palosy has
announced that she is not going to yield to the pressures from Turkey
and the White House and is determined to put to discussion Resolution
# 106 on the Recognition of Armenian Genocide. ` I have already
underscored that once the bill is adopted by the US House of Foreign
Affairs Committee it will be included in the agenda of the plenary
session. Now the bill has been discussed by the Committee and it is
going to `enter’ the House of Representatives.’
In response to the question `Why should you complicate the
situation, being under the pressure of US administration and Turkey?’
‘As you know I have been working in Congress for the last 20 years
and during these 20 years people repeat the same. After the collapse
of the Soviet Union (during the years of cold war) Turkey’s strategic
significance, from the geographical point of view, used to be of
great importance. It was followed by the war in Persian Gulf. During
Bill Clinton’s presidency they attached great importance to air
borders and oil-ducts. At present we are facing another war. This
means we will never have the proper time to pass the Resolution,’ the
Speaker said.

The Irish Times
October 12, 2007 Friday

God’s gift to a strict post-Soviet regime

AZERBAIJAN: Oil and gas have given Azerbaijan the fastest-growing GDP
in the world, writes Arthur Beesley in Baku

President Ilham Aliyev has lofty plans for Azerbaijan, a post-Soviet
state on the cusp of great wealth thanks to its abundant reserves of
oil and gas.

Squeezed between Russia and Iran on the eastern shores of the Caspian
sea, Aliyev’s secular Muslim country of 7.9 million people is in the
midst of a vigorous boom that has hugely increased its strategic
importance. Aliyev commands a deeply authoritarian regime that
suppresses dissent at home but has many friends in the West because
its provision of energy helps reduce Russia’s leverage in
international markets.

The opening in 2005 of a 1,768km (1,100-mile) oil pipeline linking
the Azeri capital, Baku, with Ceyhan on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast
– via Tblisi in Georgia – provided the first opportunity for Caspian
producers to bypass Russia when exporting to Europe and further
afield.

With multinational groups such as BP arriving en masse in Baku to
trade with the state oil company, Aliyev’s low profile on the global
stage is at odds with his increasingly powerful position in the
international energy market.

Describing oil as a gift from God, he said Azerbaijan has the
potential to produce nine billion barrels of the stuff – current
production is almost 800,000 barrels per day – and enough gas to
maintain supplies for 150 years at current extraction rates.

That’s a glittering prize in energy terms, although rampant
corruption in Azerbaijan and an ambivalent attitude to democracy are
a big cause of concern to the international community.

A further concern is Aliyev’s belligerent rhetoric about Armenia’s
occupation of Azerbaijan’s territories in Nagorno Karabakh, over
which the countries went to war between 1989 and 1994. With peace
talks inconclusive since then, Aliyev has relentlessly ramped up his
annual military budget to the tune of $1 billion (EUR 702 million).
"Next year it will be much higher . . . We must be ready for any
outcome," he said in a group interview for European journalists.

Aliyev inherited power in a disputed 2003 election from his late
father, Heydar, a Soviet grandee and former chief of the local KGB
who dominated Azeri politics for more than 30 years. It was the first
such transfer of power in the former Soviet empire.

Even today, his father’s image hangs prominently on posters
throughout the dusty streets of Baku in the mode of dear leaders
elsewhere. On those same streets, the presence of sleek Mercedes
beside fruit-laden Ladas is evidence of a chasm between the wealth of
the country’s elite and those left behind by the boom.

Aliyev will stand for a second and final term in a presidential
election next year, a contest he is widely expected to win. On the
sixth floor of the enormous presidential palace overlooking Baku, his
remarks do not augur well for the democratic cause. "Frankly
speaking, I don’t believe that international observers will say that
these elections were in full accordance with international
standards," he said.

While observers of the 2003 poll for the Organisation for Security
and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) witnessed ballot-box stuffing and
tampering with result protocols, Aliyev claims such statements were
"politically motivated" and far from reality.

Igbal Agazadeh disagrees. An opposition MP who was severely beaten
during the 17 months he spent in prison after disputing the outcome
of the 2003 poll, he plans to contest next year’s election. Agazadeh
speaks in confident terms about his prospects, but readily highlights
a litany of shortcomings in political and budgetary accountability in
the Aliyev regime. "It’s an imitation form of democracy," he said.

For all that, Aliyev insists he is moving his country decisively
towards greater transparency and openness and said he wants to go
much further.

Lauding the EU for providing the "best experience in the world" in
terms of economic development, political freedom, living standards
and security, he said Baku was keen to develop ever closer ties with
the union.

So does Aliyev want Azerbaijan to join the EU? "In principle yes
sure, but we must be realists," he said. "If the EU is ready, or when
it’s ready, we will of course be happy to be part of this structure."

The reality is that Azerbaijan itself is far from ready for the EU.
Aliyev recites impressive figures about Azerbaijan’s rapid economic
advance – a 35 per cent rise in gross domestic product last year, the
fastest in the world – but it remains unclear as to whether his
government will successfully manage the growth.

Public spending next year will rise to the equivalent of $12 billion,
up from $1.4 billion as recently as 2003. While such an expansion
would challenge even the most advanced administration, Aliyev said
the construction of new schools, roads, hospitals and power stations
was all for the benefit of the Azeri people.

Aliyev’s government maintains it is fighting a noble fight against
corruption, but his critics charge that such a rapid uplift in
expenditure provides ample scope for the illicit siphoning off of
public money for private gain.

"The spending area is totally corrupt. Money is stolen – not in the
oil well – in government spending. It is becoming uncontrollable,"
said political analyst Ilgar Mammador, a member of the Azerbaijan
Euro-Integration National Committee.

The committee cannot provide concrete examples of corruption,
although its concerns are shared by the EU and other international
organisations. In Baku, the boom continues. The city has more cranes
over its skyline than Dublin ever had in the heyday of the Celtic
Tiger.

DEADLY RESOLUTION

Savannah Morning News, GA
Oct 12 2007

A House committee vote could endanger the war effort in Iraq.

WEDNESDAY’S VOTE by the House Foreign Affairs Committee spotlighting
the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians almost a century ago is either
boneheaded bad timing or a deliberate attempt to sabotage the American
war effort in Iraq.

While historians agree that the deaths occurred, the committee vote
branded the atrocity with the politically charged term of genocide
on the part of Turks at the end of World War I.

Although the vote has yet to go to the floor of the full House, the
committee’s action could endanger our military’s use of its base in
Turkey, and foul the delicate balance of peace in northern Iraq.

House Resolution 106 has for years been the subject of
vigorous lobbying from both sides of the issue by Turkey and
Armenian-Americans. Turkey claims the number of deaths has been
inflated and that Turks also died in the civil war that roiled the
area at the end of the wider World War I.

However one might feel about recognizing the plight of the Armenians
more than 90 years ago, it is difficult to imagine a worse time to
anger Turkey, an important NATO ally.

According to the Associated Press, some 70 percent of U.S. air cargo
bound for Iraq and a third of the fuel used in the war goes through
Turkey.

What’s more, it is only through fervent diplomatic efforts that the
United States has convinced Turkey not to cross the northern border
of Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish separatists agitating for independence
from Turkey. Both the United States and the European Union label the
Kurdish Workers’ Party, or PKK, as a terrorist organization.

However, the U.S. strongly opposes a military incursion by Turkey
into Iraqi Kurdistan for fear it would destabilize one of Iraq’s only
peaceful sectors.

It should also be noted that after France’s lower house of parliament
passed a bill last year making it illegal to deny the deaths were
genocide, Turkey cut off military relations with that country. And
that’s even though the measure was never passed by France’s upper
house to become law.

Analysts say Turkey is not likely to take such drastic action in
relation to its much broader military relationship with the United
States.

But Turkey is a democracy as well, and its leaders are subject to
public pressure.

That means our soldiers on the ground could see some repercussions from
the foolishly timed action of American politicians safely ensconced
at the Capitol.

Many more deaths caused by rebels based in northern Iraq, and Turkey’s
leaders might succumb to public outcry to put an end to the violence.

Heaven help the 19 Democrats and eight Republicans who voted the
measure out of committee if House Resolution 106 triggers a new
eruption of violence in Iraq.

AKP’S BAGIS: "ARMENIAN RESOLUTION BELONGS IN THE GARBAGE CAN"

Turkish Press
Star
Oct 11 2007

Press Review

In Washington , visiting parliamentary deputies yesterday met with
members of a US House of Representatives committee set to vote today on
a resolution on the Armenian genocide allegations. Speaking about the
resolution, Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chair Egemen
Bagis said, "The resolution before the US Congress on the Armenian
allegations about incidents of 1915 belongs in the garbage can."

RAJAB TAYYIP ERDOGAN: IMPOSSIBLE TO OPEN BORDERS WITH ARMENIA, UNLESS THERE IS IMPROVEMENT IN THE SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT

Azeri Press Agency
Oct 11 2007

Turkey’s Prime Minister Rajab Tayyip Erdogan once more stated that it
is impossible to open borders with Armenia, unless there is improvement
in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

The Prime Minister said this in his interview to CNN Turk TV channel,
APA Turkey bureau reports.

Asked about the development of the relations with Armenia and whether
they are thinking of opening borders the Prime Minister said: "There is
a problem of Upper Karabakh. The question is Armenia occupied these
territories. Everybody admits that this is an invasion and Armenia
is demanded to free the lands. It will hurt Azerbaijan, if we open
borders, unless there is any improvement," he said.

Rajab Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey and Azerbaijan are fraternized
countries, moreover the two countries cooperate on Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan,
Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum, Baku-Tbilisi-Kars and other projects and are
strategic partners.

San Gabriel, CA, 10/12/2007

10/11: What do you think?

Do you agree with President Bush that passage of the Armenian Genocide
measure would harm critical relations with Turkey?

A. Yes
B. No

VOTE:

Turkey calls US envoy back home

By Vincent Boland in Ankara, Demetri Sevastopulo in London and Daniel
Dombey in Washington

Published: October 11 2007 17:44 | Last updated: October 12 2007 00:13

Turkey summoned back its ambassador from Washington on Thursday night
in reaction to the US congressional vote labelling the mass killings
of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

The move comes amid warnings that the issue could mark a turning point
in relations between Washington and Ankara and jeopardise US troops in
Iraq.

The non-binding resolution was adopted by the House of Representatives
foreign affairs committee in a 27-21 vote on Wednesday.

It is now set to go to the full House in coming weeks despite intense
opposition from Turkey and the Bush administration, which fears the
measure will further damage an already strained relationship.

"We are not withdrawing our ambassador. We have asked him to come to
Turkey for some consultations,” Levent Bilman, a Turkish foreign
ministry spokesman, said.

He added that the ambassador would stay in Turkey for a week or 10
days for discussions on the vote.

"We look forward to his swift return and will continue to work to
maintain strong US-Turkish relations," the White House said.

Turkey accepts that hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Armenians were
killed from 1915 to 1917 as the empire collapsed and before the
Republic of Turkey was created. But it rejects the idea of genocide
and insists that the victims died because of war, hunger, and
displacement.

Several countries have endorsed the genocide verdict, but for the US
to be on the brink of now doing the same – as seems likely if the
whole House of Representatives votes on it – is especially dismaying
to many Turks.

Some see it as a symbol of a growing disengagement between two
military allies who enjoyed a long and largely pragmatic relationship
until the US invasion of Iraq.

"When we look back in 20 years we might see this as a milestone in the
way Turkey and the US have drifted apart," said Suat Kiniklioglu, an
MP for the ruling Justice and Development party.

Others say that Turkey has backed itself irrevocably into a corner on
the Armenian issue by refusing to engage with its critics and by
silencing domestic debate. Cengiz Aktar, an academic and commentator
in Istanbul, said: "Turkey has made this a question of honour but it
has no other policy. We were more flexible on this issue 20 years ago
than we are today."

The House resolution comes at a delicate time in US relations.
Ankara’s parliament is expected next week to approve a military
operation into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish PKK separatist
rebels who have staged bloody attacks inside Turkey in recent weeks.

Such a move is fiercely opposed by the US, which fears that Iraq’s
most stable region could be engulfed in a new conflict.

Such an authorisation might not be acted on immediately. But the
Turkish authorities appear determined to rout the PKK in the face of a
wave of outrage at recent killings of civilians and soldiers. "The
prime minister feels that our policy of restraint [on the PKK] has to
end," Mr Kiniklioglu said.

But threats of retaliation against the US if the House adopted the
resolution, made by some Turkish politicians, may be premature.
Several diplomats pointed out on Thursday that the Bush administration
and much of the US foreign policy establishment took Ankara’s side in
opposing the resolution, a fact that could influence any official
Turkish response.

Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, said there could be "enormous
present-day implications" for US operations in Iraq if Turkey took
retaliatory action.

Nicholas Burns, the undersecretary of state, said the administration
would contact the Turkish government to convey its "deep
disappointment" at the adoption of the resolution.

Additional reporting by agencies

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007

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