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...damaging its hull. In best America's Cup tradition, Le D?fi threatened to sue. "This was a deliberate act of aggression," said syndicate head Xavier de Lesquen. "The team has been endlessly insulted and abused on the water." Bruno Rebelle, head of Greenpeace France, says police were satisfied the bump was accidental, the damage minimal and, two weeks later, he has had no lawsuit. "We are not targeting the ship or its sailors. We just consider this a dirty sponsor for such a beautiful sport." He promises further protests when Le D?fi leaves France and on its arrival in Auckland...
...doctor said, ‘[if] you go out there [and] trip over a base [or] bump into someone, you could seriously hurt yourself again,” she said. “Our manager said [the same thing] would happen even if [I] were healthy. So I got a bit more confidence to fight the doctors and tell them what I wanted...
...story is told in the form of a flashback, as discussed in Berlin in 2003 by the children of two of the main characters, who, by happenstance, bump into one another while they are both vacationing in the same spot. Over the course of the novel, the plot reveals itself in many different ways: it changes narrators, follows different characters, and even appears in the form of issues of The Bill Board, Ben’s school newspaper...
...threats in your foreign policy - like the recent leaks from the White House of rogue nations that could be targeted with nuclear weapons - can also complicate a doctrine. Says Hyde: "To threaten dire consequences for any country harboring terrorists is a rallying cry for the faithful, but it can bump into reality and be a lot harder to execute." "That's why it's so important that the President choose his words carefully," says Hagel. "When you talk about using nuclear weapons, that's a new dynamic that most presidents don't talk as openly about. It opens the President...
...every irresistible force, there's an immovable object. Dell may be about to bump up against his: Beijing-based Legend Computer. Legend is the runaway PC leader in China, a country that represents one of the planet's last great I.T. sales opportunities. Despite relatively low penetration rates, China's $10 billion computer market is already the third largest in the world; within a few years it is expected to move past Japan and become second only to the U.S. For computer companies, success on the mainland is becoming increasingly crucial as markets in developed countries reach saturation. Last year...