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...potential services set tech tongues wagging. A source who wouldn't go on record because negotiations on funding are continuing - unconfirmed reports put the initial bill at €1-2 billion - would only say that Quaero will go beyond Google in its ability to dig into the content of multimedia files. But the source acknowledged that a launch is still months away. John Battelle, author of a book on Google, thinks transatlantic rivalry might be playing an outsized role. "I'm skeptical of government forays into free-market economies when the primary motivation is political," he says. And even...
Herzog sounds serene over the rejection. "I don't lose one moment of sleep over it," he says. "I'm perfectly content with the success of the film with audiences and critics...
...also been working with the technology coordinator. He took a good look at the code behind the website and is learning how to operate it best,” said Glazer. “He is going to be making any changes that the committee sees fit, including content changes...
...five years, President Bush has already challenged up to 500 provisions, according to one tally--far, far more than any predecessor. But more important than the number under Bush has been the systematic use of the statements and the scope of their content, asserting a very broad legal loophole for the Executive. Last December, for example, after a year of debate, the President signed the McCain amendment into law. In the wake of Abu Ghraib, the amendment banned all "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of U.S. military detainees. For months, the President threatened a veto. Then the Senate passed...
...message-relatively "moderate" by jihadist standards, in that it appeared to stake out a hypothetical negotiating position and the prospect of coexistence with the U.S. at the same time as warning of new violence-was notable less for its content than for the fact that it was released at all. Despite directly addressing Americans, its primary purpose may nonetheless be to remind Arab and Muslim audiences of his existence, and to reiterate his claim to primacy among the jihadists. Bin Laden last message was released in December 2004, although the movement's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has continued...