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...took explosives to do what diplomacy couldn't: allow Palestinians to go on a shopping spree. The siege of Gaza, imposed by Israel and the international community after Hamas seized control of the Palestinian territory last July, ended abruptly before dawn on Wednesday when militants blew as many as 15 holes in the border wall separating the territory from Egypt. In the hours that followed, over 350,000 Palestinians swarmed across the frontier, nearly one fifth of Gaza's entire population...
It’s time to start stocking up on conversation material. In 2009, millions of lights will go out across America, marking the dawn of a new era: an era without analog television. As static flickers across sets from California to Cambridge, families who haven’t spoken for years except during commercial breaks will be forced to turn to one another and catch up. I imagine that the first exclamation out of some people’s mouths will be: “Thank heavens for my liberal education!” Then I imagine the sound...
...side online within a few hours," said David Michaelis, director of current affairs for the San Francisco-based LinkTV, and a Forum participant. "We have to be able to answer, to get a moderate point of view up, just as quickly." Hameed Haroon, CEO of the Pakistani media group, Dawn Publications, came out of the media workshop bursting with ideas. "It needs to be like a superblog, a super-Google," he says. "A place that unites a survival guide for reporters going into conflict zones, with expertise from universities around the world, and reports from local journalists who are actually...
...announcement of a "dawn raid" - the police swooping on the unsuspecting targets - might have conjured images from the Chicago of Al Capone and Eliot Ness, or from an episode of Miami Vice...
...world: pharmaceutical giants like U.S.-based Pfizer, Britain's GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis of France. And the police were no gunslinging sheriffs, but bureaucrats from the European Commission, seizing computer files and documents. Welcome to the world of market regulation, and to the Commission's intrepid strike force of dawn raiders...