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...Lebanese capital had been bracing for further violence, amid a political impasse that shows no sign of ending despite the mediation efforts of France last month and the Arab League over the past week. Amr Musa, the Arab League secretary-general, is set to return to Beirut Wednesday for another attempt to cajole the bickering Lebanese into accepting the League's proposal to elect a new President and form a national unity government. Few expect him to succeed. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak warned on Monday that patience with the feuding Lebanese is running out, and said that...
...AMR Research, a technology research company based in Boston, estimates that 40% of all new manufacturing-related software already incorporates some form of AI. "Everyone is interested in analyzing large bodies of data to determine what is likely to happen," says McColl, the former Bank of America CEO. "NuTech has figured out how to do that." McColl joined NuTech's board in September and has invested in the company. He and Walesa will receive stock options that could prove valuable if the company successfully goes public. Michalewicz says the 126-employee firm has almost 100 customers and is turning...
...four Beirut-based music channels, financed by Saudi billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal. Melody, out of Cairo, is controlled by Egyptian telecoms magnate Naguib Sawiris. Mohammed Yanez, MTV talent and music director, says his channel will be different. Sure, there will be stars like Elissa, Nancy Ajram and Amr Diab, but Yanez wants a little less melodrama. "We are always weeping in Arabic music," he complains. He plans to mix it up with Arab hip-hop, a genre that thrives in the Middle Eastern club scene but has been ignored by the music channels. A new MTV Arabia show...
...movingly about her cancer, saying she accepted the TIME 100 honor "only as a representative of all the men and women who are facing diagnoses like mine, and who continue to fight." NBC News anchor Brian Williams spoke of his heroes of broadcast journalism, Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer. Amr Khaled, the televangelist from Egypt, spoke passionately about young Islamic men and women who want peaceful co-existence with the rest of the world, and asked us to reach out our hands to them. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke of how astronomer Carl Sagan had generously offered his time...
...vote on Saturday. Little else will be so straightforward. The newly designated Interior Minister, Hani Kawasmi, a veteran and unaffiliated civil servant, will have to find a way to take control of the numerous Palestinian security forces and instill some sort of order on the streets. Ziad Abu Amr, the Foreign Minister-designate, and Salam Fayyad, who has been tapped as Finance Minister, are both independent moderates with good reputations in the West. Their job will be to persuade Arab and European governments to lift the financial blockade imposed after Hamas took office a year...