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...their conversion so enraging? Well, first, howzabout an apology? It's maddening that there's no cost for being wrong, even when it translates into thousands of people dead and billions of dollars down the drain. In our culture of value-free celebrity, in which a famous ax murderer equals a famous actress equals a famous Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adelman and Perle have merely earned another 15 minutes as hot guests on the talk shows. They have reason to be pleased, having deserted the Bush Administration five minutes ahead of the other rats. But they should...
...American operation's success might not be enough to save Ricke's job. In Germany, where Telekom still generates more than half its sales, the company is bleeding, and its biggest U.S. shareholder, the Blackstone Group, is agitating for Ricke to take an American-style ax to expenses. Telekom's sales outside Germany surged 13.5%, to $17.2 billion, in the first half of this year. But in the same period, sales at home plunged 4%, to $20.6 billion, as customers abandon fixed lines for mobile and Internet-based services...
...green lawn in front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans - in just one collection point of the city, the authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Eighty kilometers south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. To the south...
...wake up chained to pipes in a dirty bathroom and must saw off their feet to go free A woman's intestines gleam in the sun after she's smacked by a truck A Japanese tourist loses an eyeball to a blowtorch-wielding American businessman A man fights an ax-wielding mutant with a flagpole he pulls from a corpse's skull An unlucky spelunker ends up standing in a pool of blood that reaches to her chin A naked woman strung up in a meat locker is sprayed with cold water that hardens...
...DOMINO IS tipping at Yale, where a faculty committee has moved to "accelerate" its review of the college's admissions program, the YDN observes. The school faces pressure to ax its non-binding, early-action program after Harvard did so earlier this month. Princeton followed suit, dropping its binding, early-decision program a week later. Yale President Richard Levin won't say what the committee will decide, but will say how often they'll meet: "more or less monthly." Only in higher education can that be considered accelerated...