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When King Gyanendra reinstated Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba last week, it seemed that Nepal's bumpy political merry-go-round had come full circle. The King first sacked Deuba in October 2002, accusing the Prime Minister of "incompetence" for failing to unite Nepal's fractious political parties and crush the kingdom's bloody Maoist insurgency. Since then, Gyanendra has appointed?and seen depart?two more Prime Ministers, endured months of violent protests against his royalist government, and watched the Maoist rebellion claim as many as 3,000 lives. Thus his decision to return Deuba to power was widely viewed...
...applied to big utilities. "The EPA [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] cases are huge," he says. But Spitzer clearly sees Wall Street as his bailiwick; an avid and aggressive tennis player, he keeps a tennis ball with the Merrill Lynch logo on it, occasionally palming it as he chats. The crush of activity in his office speaks volumes about how much opportunity presents itself for someone who makes it a personal crusade to clean up the business world...
...Chen, whose new term of office lasts until 2008. The Chinese Foreign Ministry described his speech as "a sham," and in a statement released by the mainland's Taiwan Affairs Office earlier in the week, Beijing warned that if Taiwan's leaders took any steps toward independence, it would "crush their schemes firmly and thoroughly at any cost." But although it made them contingent on Chen's accepting Beijing's "one China" policy, the same statement also put forward seven points seemingly designed to put cross-strait ties on a more stable footing. They ranged from confidence-building measures, such...
...worst-kept secret in Silicon Valley is finally out: Google, the Internet search engine with legions of digital devotees, will sell shares to the public sometime this summer. The crush of interest that has surrounded what will be a highly unusual initial public offering (IPO) of stock is in many ways justified. Google is that rare Internet success story--profitable since 2001, with revenue that soared nearly threefold since then, to $962 million, last year...
...film needs battles, and Troy has nearly a dozen of them, employing arrows, spears, great balls of fire rolling down a slope to crush the enemy. The beach blitz has Achilles and his Myrmidons capturing the territory for Agamemnon in an Omaha Beach--like assault (Saving Priam's Rival). But thousands fighting thousands is war; man fighting man is drama. Troy boasts plenty of good old Hellenic fist power. Paris vs. Menelaus, Hector vs. Ajax the Great, Achilles vs. Hector--it's a dream card at Madison Square Garden, and the movie choreographs each set-to with burly ingenuity. This...