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...lesser role of vice chairman -- to Smith's chairman and chief executive officer -- in the new company. Malone had loomed as the * potential big winner of the Paramount fight, the master strategist who would run lucrative Paramount movies and TV shows on his cable systems and thereby tighten his grip on the industry. While that could still happen, the image of Malone as anyone's No. 2 seemed strange. He will certainly be well rewarded for selling out to Bell Atlantic. His TCI and Liberty holdings would be worth about $1 billion in the merged company's stock, making...
...Actually, they're just diversions from the epochal face-off of Bruce and the Joker. For a good part of the film, when the two embrace in a free fall of souls - one doomed, the other imperiled - you may think you're in the grip of a mordant masterpiece. That feeling will pass, as the film spends too many of its final moments setting up the series' third installment. The chill will linger, though. The Dark Knight is bound to haunt you long after you've told yourself, Aah, it's only a comic-book movie...
...Maliki may be further emboldened by his government's improved ties with neighboring Iran, America's biggest regional rival. Between that and a tighter grip on Shi'ite support, the Prime Minister and his men have no reason to admit that the timetable is mere posturing. On Tuesday, Iraq's national security advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie reinforced the Prime Minister's statement. "We can't have a memorandum of understanding with foreign forces unless it has dates and clear horizons determining the departure of foreign forces. We're unambiguously talking about their departure," he told reporters in Najaf after...
...Much of this can be attributed to the slowly loosening but still stifling vice grip of Confucianism. While Buddha and Jesus battle over the eternal souls of the Korean faithful, neither the Enlightened One nor the Anointed One has the same influence that Confucius does over people’s daily lives. The man of many proverbs has his hand in it all, from the relentless work ethic that keeps my students in school until 10 p.m. five days a week during the summer, to the drinking culture in which the younger generation must be constantly ready with a refill...
Inaccessible and untamed valleys throughout the province provide transit routes for drugs, weapons and insurgents across Afghanistan. The government is weak, and there's little rule of law--local police are seen as scarcely more than uniformed thieves. Opium traffickers have a firm grip on the agricultural production of the province, providing credit, seeds and fertilizer to farmers, who have no other recourse than to grow the raw material for heroin--which in turn finances the insurgency. Helmand is the biggest opium-producing region in the world. And it is home to a Pashtun population that has historically resisted centralized...