No ketchup, please

“WE ARE not yet ready to put ketchup on our petits LU,” said Christine Lagarde, France’s economy minister, after Kraft announced on July 3 that it had offered euros 5.3 billion ($7.2 billion) to buy Danone’s biscuit business.“WE ARE not yet ready to put ketchup on our petits LU,” said Christine Lagarde, France’s economy minister, after Kraft announced on July 3 that it had offered euros 5.3 billion to buy Danone’s biscuit business.

Does the glass ceiling really exist?

THE organisation that I did my summer internship with has a woman at a vice-chair position on the board. The division that I worked for (covering Asean, Australia and India) had a woman heading it.

No longer all work and no play

SRIDHAR Sivaram is looking forward to the upcoming Microsoft Corporate Challenge (MCC). Nowadays, it’s the treadmill monitor—not the Sensex monitor—that holds his attention as he sweats it out in the run-up to this year’s challenge.

Muzzling dissent and moving to a war footing

The government’s opponents, real or imaginary—be they secular liberals, trade unionists, campaigners for women’s rights, immodestly dressed youths, disgruntled ethnic minorities.

Still No.1

Even the greatest empires hurt when they lose wars. It is not surprising then that Iraq weighs so heavily on the American psyche. Most Americans want to get out as soon as possible, surge or no surge;

A world awash in heroin

The smell of the Afghan poppy season is unmistakable, even from the open door of a Black Hawk helicopter. NATO Soldiers in Helmand province see the expanse of purple and pink blossoms flashing by, but they do little to stop drug production.

The revolution is not yet over

One for the road

Mobilised by mobile

Minder’s mission

Pillorying Hillary

The sovereign loses its crown

Patent pending

Fly me home, James

Pillorying Hillary

You think she stayed in her marriage because she was hungry for unelected power, and that disgusts you.” And so on. The quote is from Can She Be Stopped?, a polemic by John Podhoretz, a conservative columnist.

The sovereign loses its crown

Who says sovereign debt is king? Firms in emerging markets have raised more than twice as much in international markets as have sovereign borrowers this year, a complete turnaround from just five years ago.

Minder’s mission

For several months he has been collecting signatures to call a national vote to amend Swiss law and impose greater transparency and accountability in the field of executive pay.

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No ketchup, please

Does the glass ceiling really exist?

No longer all work and no play

Muzzling dissent and moving to a war footing

Still No.1

A world awash in heroin

The revolution is not yet over

One for the road

Mobilised by mobile

Minder’s mission

Pillorying Hillary

The sovereign loses its crown

Patent pending

Fly me home, James

Pillorying Hillary

The sovereign loses its crown

Minder’s mission

Lunching for legalisation

How Dr Chan intends to defend the planet from pandemics

Dial L for locust

Dramatic entrance