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...what about that pink do? To motivate the troops, De Luca had bet that a Logitech spin-off wouldn't sign up 100,000 users and promised to dye his hair if it met the target. It did--and he kept his word. --By Jennifer L. Schenker/Paris
...families of diplomats abroad to return to Iraq, implying that he intends to hold those family members hostage. In both London and Washington, officials insist that it is unlikely that anyone very senior within the Iraqi power structure has made contact with the outside. "Nobody's going to bet their life yet that America is ready to roll," says the former government official. "You don't want to get yourself killed two months before the U.S. liberates the country. That's not smart." But allied officials are hoping that if they make the right moves now, the war before...
...feel to all this. Is housing headed for the kind of bust that stocks have suffered? The heady growth of recent years is clearly over, and prices may soften over the next few years--both good reasons to take something off the table. But it's a good bet that the rate of household formation (growing) and supply of desirable building lots (shrinking) will underpin the market for years. So if you're not planning to move soon, the home equity you've built should be put to better...
...bet on it. As the novel and Jian roll closer to June 4, it becomes clear, almost too clear, that the pent-up anguish of Yang, his student and all of seething China will break open in Beijing, "the sick heart of this country." Jin's description of the massacre is vivid, short and sorrowful, suffused with the Inferno-like imagery he evokes throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which...
...bet they did. The Crimson was up against two tough opponents—a determined Yale team that had won three games in a row and an angry Mother Nature that arrived at the Stadium with swirling, 35-mph winds, bringing the wind chill well below the innocuous game-time temperature of 43 degrees...