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...gone too far. Telekom admitted over the weekend that at least twice in 2005 and 2006, company managers commissioned a private security firm to scrutinize the phone records of journalists and members of its supervisory board. The goal was to discover which corporate executives were talking to journalists. Through cross-checking that information with published newspaper stories, the executives hoped to identify the internal sources of leaks...
...Those were the poles of his sensibility. He was capable of making something as funny as the great cross-dressing farce, Tootsie, or as dark as his take on depression-era America, They Shoot Horses Don't They? But his filmography is marked most indelibly by the lush romanticism of Out of Africa (for which he won the Oscar) on the one hand, and by taut thrillers like Three Days of the Condor and The Firm on the other. It can be argued that the contradiction between those two modes is more apparent than real. High romance disorders the spirits...
...Washington is with Obama. Current representative Luis Fortuño, a statehooder who is challenging Gov. Vila, is already a delegate for Senator John McCain. (Incidentally, McCain adviser Charlie Black is known as the G.O.P. lobbyist to see in Washington when it comes to Puerto Rico issues.) The unorthodox cross-party appeals being made by both Clinton and Obama has brought a new phenomenon to Puerto Rico's politics; at Clinton rallies in Ponce and Vieques, commonwealther mayors and their statehooder challengers have introduced each other. "It's really an exhilarating experience," McClintock says. "It's not easy to build...
...Chinese digital-media giant Tom.com, garnering around $240,000 by May 21. Nine days after the quake, contributions from Chinese and foreign donors totaled some $1.5 billion, according to the government. Much of those funds are coming from people making enormous sacrifices. Waiting patiently in line at the Red Cross Society of China office in Beijing on May 19 was Liang Baoying, a 63-year-old retired teacher. Clutching an envelope containing $287 - the equivalent of her monthly pension - Liang tearfully said she could no longer watch news of the quake on TV because it is too sad. "I believe...
...shown that not only do its people know how to grieve but they also know how to give. And the charity isn't coming from just private companies and wealthy citizens; many of those donating are poor Chinese making enormous sacrifices. Waiting patiently in line at the Red Cross Society of China office in Beijing on May 19 was Liang Baoying, a 63-year-old retired teacher. Clutching an envelope containing the equivalent of $287--her monthly pension--Liang tearfully said she could no longer watch news of the quake on TV because it was too sad. "I believe this...