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HORROR SHOW At a refugee center for widows of men lost in the massacre at Srebrenica, Bosnian Muslim Fatima Begovic, whose husband and sons died there, sobs as she watches Slobodan Milosevic defend himself at his trial for crimes against humanity--the first ever for a head of state. The former Yugoslav President, accused of directing the genocide of 300,000 non-Serbs and driving millions from their homelands, scornfully blamed NATO and claimed he was the real victim. "It is all lies," he fumed. "The real crime was the killing of Yugoslavia and crucifying...
Toronto business partners Ian McDonald and Kerry Knoll and a lawyer friend, John Cocomile, had a novel idea. Patent suits are so expensive to litigate that if investors put up money to help independent inventors defend their rights, the inventors would probably be willing to share any award. The three were right on the money. The shareholders in their company, Patent Enforcement & Royalties, which trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange, are entitled to 50% of a $3 million January verdict against Land O'Lakes for infringing a New Yorker's patent of a low-fat coffee creamer. Three weeks...
...remotely plausible scenarios in a competition that featured the U.S., Canada and six also-rans who had no serious shot at gold. In the first, the U.S. would continue its pre-Olympic domination of the Canadians - the Americans had won all of the last eight meetings - and successfully defend their 1998 gold medal...
...axis of evil” doctrine is clear in a way that American foreign policy has not been clear in a long time. Its message is unmistakably simple: “If you threaten the democratic values we defend and hold dear, you are evil. And we will eliminate your threat. Period. If you don’t believe us, ask the Taliban...
...captured in 1967. Also, the Palestinians lack the ready access to sophisticated weaponry Hezbollah enjoyed throughout its 18-year campaign. But the Israeli Defense Force was a lot less vulnerable in Lebanon than it may soon be in the West Bank and Gaza, where its forces are dispersed to defend some 145 settlements and to encircle scores of Palestinian population centers. Such vulnerability only increases when the IDF is sent inside those population centers in pursuit of Palestinian suspects...