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...During the early 1990s Sondhi's Manager Media Group owned an assortment of magazines, newspapers and satellite channels. In Bangkok and other Asian cities, Sondhi was a fixture on the social circuit. "I was a very arrogant young man at that time," he recalls. In Bangkok, he met another upcoming media tycoon. Thaksin and he "were never friends, only acquaintances," Sondhi insists. But soon they were doing business together. In 1992, Thaksin invested in the share offering of IEC, a mobile-phone handset distributor that Sondhi had bought and which sold handsets to Shin subsidiary...
...entire defense team stormed out in protest. The trial, which is held in the hulking former Baath Party headquarters inside Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone, will resume Feb. 13, but the defendants may not appear in person. Instead they will be able to watch proceedings on closed-circuit television. If Saddam wants to question witnesses, which is allowed under Iraqi law, he can pass written queries to his attorneys. The chief judge says the defendants may return if they behave "in the proper way" but that their presence isn't essential for the trial to continue...
...that was at stake was some sort of bragging rights--who has the most Nobels, who gets to look down its national nose at the rest of the world--none of that would have happened because it wouldn't really matter. After all, Americans may have invented the integrated circuit and the Internet and the lightbulb, but people all over the world get to use them. Same goes for the statin drugs that lower cholesterol and the iPod. And we are obviously free to use inventions made elsewhere, such as Velcro and the ballpoint...
...after a two-year hiatus, but lost to Rohbock for one of two driver spots on the Olympic team. Got it? "There's so much drama, it's ridiculous," says Rohbock. A saving grace, she insists, is that the women now travel with the men on the World Cup circuit. Says Rohbock: "It's just been a good release to be with them and get away from the girls." Partner swapping is less common in luge, since it takes years to get in synch. The top driver steers the sled through treacherous curves with his legs while the bottom driver...
...Goffredo also leads the league in free-throw percentage, at .865. Harvard is tops in the circuit with a .732 mark from the line…Stehle is currently sixth in the league in field goal percentage, with a .485 mark…Columbia freshman guard K.J. Matsui, who Harvard will see on Friday night, is second to Gore with a .449 percentage from three. Goffredo is sixth...