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...Diana. The Windsors selected her as a future Queen on much the same basis as they would have bought a horse; she came from good stock, had excellent bones, and had never been saddled. Their fatal miscalculation was to forget that beautiful 19-year-old girls grow up, and develop the characteristics that come with age; revenge, among them. The key point about Diana, however, was less that she would not take her many humiliations lying down, and more that she understood precisely what modern Britain wanted - that she should be sexy, not dowdy; city, not country; clubby, not doggy...
...state-owned French company, TotalFinaElf, meanwhile, has recently been maneuvering to gain exploration rights in Iraq’s Majnoon field, which has projected reserves of 20-30 billion barrels. In addition, China National Petroleum Corporation is contracted to repair and develop sections of the Rumaila production zone, which was badly damaged during the 1991 Gulf War. These agreements, of course, might not necessarily be honored by a post-Hussein Iraqi government. The extermination of Baghdad’s totalitarian despot could thereby mean less revenue and less influence for energy companies in all three nations...
...added that the relatively late date of Yale’s petition allowed them to develop a more elaborate proposal than those already in circulation...
...invented in Finland 11 years ago) shows, Microsoft is increasingly having to move from a world of tight control to one of open standards. Last week the largest European manufacturer committed to a Microsoft-powered Smartphone, Britain's Sendo, abandoned the project just weeks before launch. Now, Sendo will develop a new phone that uses open-source software from Finland's Nokia, which makes customizing phones for specific operators easier. In other words, Europe's courts aren't the only ones that can pressure Microsoft to open up - the firm's own clients have clout too, and they...
...suddenly Europe started feeling a lot like the U.S., where Ridge and Attorney General John Ashcroft issue terror alerts on what seems like a weekly basis. Britons were getting decidedly mixed messages from their government. On Thursday, the Home Office issued a statement saying that terrorists may "try to develop a so-called dirty bomb or some kind of poison gas. Maybe they will try to use boats or trains, rather than planes" in an assault. But within an hour the statement was withdrawn, replaced by a less frightening one. "If al-Qaeda could mount an attack upon key economic...