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...finally decided to allow the country's three mobile-phone carriers to upgrade to 3G (third generation) network technology, he could hardly believe the long-awaited day had finally arrived. "At one point it seemed like they were never going to make up their minds," recalls the Beijing-based head of telecommunications- and media-analysis firm BDA, "and I would spend my whole career waiting for Beijing to make this one decision...
...Upon returning to Harvard the following fall, Duncan made the Varsity team and would eventually rise to become captain of the squad. Frank Mclaughlin, head basketball coach at the time, remembers Duncan’s ability to inspire his teammates. “He’s somebody, if you were a coach, you would definitely want on your team because the way he played made everybody else better...
...forced to step down from his post as head of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in 1992 after conservative clerics criticized his liberal stance on press freedoms...
...Netanyahu, despite his second-place in the head-to-head will nonetheless be able to command a Knesset-majority coalition if Livni fails to tempt some of his allies to back her. (And, of course, the price for Livni winning backing from parties of the right will necessarily restrain her plans to pursue peace talks with the Palestinian Authority.) It will be up to Israel's president, Shimon Peres, to tap Livni or Netanyahu to form a government, based on his consultations with all parties. And, of course, these projections are based on exit polls - and some observers suggest that...
...Livni. But nothing is ever certain in an Israeli political system rendered inherently unstable by its proportional-representation formula that has made it almost impossible for any party to win a majority on its own. Whoever is asked to form Israel's next government will do so at the head of a coalition of greater or lesser instability. But instability is unavoidable in Israeli politics...