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...returned most of the money to shareholders and its market cap has fallen to $54 million, it is rich enough to make acquisitions. Losses narrowed 15% last year, to $12.6 million, and sales climbed 21% last quarter. Ncipher, unlike the instructions on Mission: Impossible, isn't about to self-destruct. --By Blaine Greteman/London
...over the Duma, but admits that he funds SPS and Yabloko as a private individual. The firm denies that Khodorkovsky has financed the Communist Party. The scheme, if it existed, was farfetched, given the modest showing of SPS and Yabloko in recent years and the Communists' tendency to self-destruct. But if the alleged plan had worked, Khodorkovsky would have become extremely powerful. Anyway, it came at a delicate time for Kremlin strategists: their party, Unity, is showing signs of coming apart at the seams. Khodorkovsky's apparent venture into open politics is perplexing. A former official in the Soviet...
...what to make of the newly released medical records? They are indisputable, but they don't give the whole picture and do leave the impression that Kennedy was little more than a chemical shell ready to self-destruct. I have my doubts. John Kennedy was a strong, determined President partly handicapped by a weakened body. But he was never an invalid...
...incidents of hate around the country, I can see our enemies smiling. I imagine that this is what they want—to see America divided—to hear our opinion-makers preach war and hatred. Let us not fall into their sinister trap. Let us not self-destruct. We already have a formidable task ahead of us; we must not let hate and ignorance hinder our progress...
Sedaris' usual target is himself--vulnerable, vain, afflicted with bad habits and perpetually defending his sacred right to self-destruct in peace. Compared with him, Woody Allen is a rock of psychological stability. In one of his best essays, A Plague of Tics, Sedaris recounts his obsessive-compulsive youth as a ritual footstep counter and doorknob toucher. Unlike the urban neurotics of the Allen school, he's a boy from the suburbs whose pH balance has gone acidic. Sedaris is gloriously bratty. Current events and politics don't interest him; he's a born consumer with no regrets, whose highest...