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...hard to imagine getting overheated about a chain of uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea. But a Japanese activist last week crashed a bus through the gates of the Chinese consulate in Osaka, livid about the mainland's claim of sovereignty over the DIAOYU ISLANDS. The Diaoyus?known in Japan as the Senkakus?have been under Japanese control for more than a century, but feuds still rage over who owns them. In March, Chinese nationalists planted a flag on Diaoyu soil; their subsequent arrest by the Japanese navy led to furious demonstrations in Beijing, with Chinese protesters burning Japanese...
...DIED. JAMES CANTALUPO, 60, McDonald's CEO who helped drive the company's international expansion, of an apparent heart attack; while attending a convention of the fast-food chain's worldwide franchisees; in Orlando, Florida. During his 10 years as president of McDonald's International, Cantalupo brought the Golden Arches to 70 countries. He retired in 2001 after being passed over for the CEO job, then he was coaxed back less than a year later to help boost sales that were sagging within the U.S. as consumers grew concerned about obesity and heart disease...
...seems to have triggered, as his maneuvers often do, another tectonic shift in the communications landscape. Why is Comcast suddenly bidding for Disney and Viacom eyeing the cable industry? Because on the billiard table that is the media business, Murdoch is the cue ball. Everything he does creates a chain reaction, often leading to unexpected combinations...
...film’s lone honest cop that Washington is “an artist of violence who is about to paint his masterpiece” before one such scene.) Still, he is only cruel when it is necessary to draw out the next line in the kidnapping chain; the kidnappers’ villainy is constant, conveniently making sure we can continuously support Creasy’s quest...
Weinberg didn’t have that book with him, launching a chain of conference calls around the country to find fellow veterans of Social Studies 10 who had Weber in tow. Says Weinberg, “I ended up standing in the back of a bookstore on a payphone, reading two pages of Max Weber over the phone to Michael in the White House and connected by satellite to one of the First Lady’s staffers in Vienna, who was writing it all down verbatim...