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Mar 29th 2007 | FRANKFURTFrom The Economist print editionA forthright boss decides that small is not always beautiful after all WENDELIN WIEDEKING, the punchy boss of Porsche, the world's most profitable small carmaker, has often described his firm as a David amid the industry's Goliaths. In 2002…

By MICHAEL WINES HARARE, Zimbabwe, March 27 — To those who ask how long President Robert G. Mugabe can remain in control of Zimbabwe, given its wildfire inflation, the growing desperation of average people and the opposition’s increasingly open hatred of the government, a…

FOR all the talk about satellite radio, the most vibrant frontier in radio may be the Web. Many traditional AM and FM stations have begun streaming on the Internet, along with hundreds of smaller online-only operators. Even subscription download services like Napster, Rhapsody and Urge from MTV have…

By SETH MYDANS SIDOARJO, Indonesia — How to tame a mud volcano: try dropping hundreds of giant concrete balls into it. In recent weeks, using a system invented at the Bandung Institute of Technology, workers have been releasing the balls from a complicated crane-pulley-sling…

"Die Liebe bringt auf Ideen und in Gefahren."Heinrich Mann (1871-1950), deutscher Erzähler, Dramatiker und Essayist (Professor Unrat

By PATRICK HEALY Of all the early problems Bill Clinton faced as president, few stand out to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as more frustrating and avoidable than his rocky relationship with the military, her advisers say. During his 1992 campaign, Mr. Clinton was attacked for avoiding the…

By HEATHER TIMMONS and ERIC DASH NEW DELHI, March 26 — Under pressure from shareholders, Citigroup is planning to shed thousands of jobs and sharpen its focus on its operations outside North America. The colossal bank will get most of its growth from its international operations,…

By BARNABY J. FEDER NEW ORLEANS, March 26 — Many heart patients routinely implanted with stents to open arteries gain no lasting benefit compared to those treated with drugs alone, researchers are reporting today. The researchers said that patients who received stents to prop open…

By JEREMY W. PETERS David A. Stockman, the former budget director for President Reagan, was indicted today on charges that he covered up the dire financial state of his company as it was headed into bankruptcy. Mr. Stockman and three other former executives at Collins & Aikman, an auto…

By MARK LANDLER BERLIN, March 24 — The German sports-car maker Porsche said Saturday that it would make a takeover bid for Volkswagen, a symbolically audacious but largely legal step in its growing control over VW, Europe’s largest carmaker and the inventor of the…