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To: Ilaine who wrote (160294)3/9/2006 10:06:18 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Respond to of 793970
 
OTOH, Yale is not exactly important to American security.

I misread that initially.

Thought you'd posted, "OTOH, Yale is not exactly important to American society.

Now that you mention it...



To: Ilaine who wrote (160294)3/9/2006 10:07:24 PM
From: kumar  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793970
 
And we won, it appears.

I am skeptical that anyone "won". DPW will set up a "wholly US owned company", and bingo...everybody's happy, no diff to daily ops at the ports...DPW still controls the purses for the US subsidiary...

news.bbc.co.uk

"...Dubai Ports World (DPW) is to transfer its US ports business to a "US entity" to end a row over its takeover of P&O.

While DPW has not explicitly said it will sell the subsidiaries responsible for the ports, the White House is suggesting this will be the end result. ..."



To: Ilaine who wrote (160294)3/9/2006 11:17:11 PM
From: carranza2  Respond to of 793970
 
And we won, it appears.

Yep, the yahoos won.

It's not that big a deal, but I doubt seriously that there was any security threat.

Well, the Clintons did nicely. She is "tough" on security for the benefit of the Know Nothings, and he gets paid lots of petrobucks he uses to finance her campaign.

That is the interesting story behind the ports deal, but we'll never hear it trumpeted as loudly as the dubious security card was brayed about in the media.