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...course, the consumer likes it," says Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster. "Who wouldn't like a price that was significantly lower than the price the hardcover is? And we think it's too low." (Grandinetti sticks to his guns: "We believe our approach to digital books allows authors, publishers and retailers to run profitable businesses yet still pass on the savings that digital books allow to readers," he says. Right or wrong, nobody can stay on message like an Amazon exec...
...tried in reformed military commissions, and some will be transferred to third countries. The Pacific archipelago of Palau may take 17 Chinese Muslims who've been at Gitmo for years. Others, Obama has hinted, will never face trial because there isn't a court in the land that would allow evidence obtained through torture...
...Pyongyang for permission to inspect the Kang Nam. But once North Korea refuses - as it is expected to do - all the mighty U.S. military can do under the resolution is inform the U.N. and stand aside while diplomats try to force any nation resupplying the ship to allow inspectors aboard. Pyongyang has said any interception of its shipping would be an "act of war," and declared over the weekend that it would "respond to sanctions with retaliation" including "unlimited retaliatory strikes" against South Korea if it helps apply U.N. sanctions...
...Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, said the violence in the streets and the deaths of protesters were "unacceptable." Three days later, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown referred to "the repression and the brutality" in Iran. Over the weekend, German Chancellor Angela Merkel went further, calling on Iran's leaders to "allow peaceful demonstrations, allow free reporting of events, stop the use of violence against demonstrators and free imprisoned people...
...demonstrations gripping Iran these days. On Monday, at a Washington press conference, Reza Pahlavi, the onetime heir to the peacock throne, condemned Iran's controversial presidential election of June 12 as "an ugly moment of disrespect for both God and man" and called on the Tehran regime to allow for "freedom, democracy, human rights [and] the right to choose." Pahlavi believes that the situation in Iran has eroded dramatically, charging that the issues go "well beyond election. This is about the sanctity of the ballot box and the legitimacy of the regime as a whole...