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...Apple press release. It was the first time Jobs had spoken for the company since he went on medical leave in January. Such strength will help offset weakness in Apple's computer business - sales were still declining on a year-over-year basis in May - until the recovery takes hold...
...ailing leader trying to arrange the eventual transfer of power to an untested son - to state that it does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons program. "It's pretty clear they have made the strategic choice to be a nuclear power, period, and will no longer hold out the weapons program as a thing to be bargained away in talks with the U.S. and its neighbors," says Bruce Klingner, a former deputy chief of the Korea desk at the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence and now a senior fellow at Washington's Heritage Foundation. "They've decided that...
...teams have a natural advantage, because it is their colors and players - rather than the competitions in which they play - that hold the allegiance of the fans. Formula One could survive the loss of one or two teams, but if it loses all its big teams and marquee-name drivers, carrying on would be tough. "A team has a fan; a series doesn't," says Aylett, who believes that a compromise can still be reached. "There is a loyalty to a team and to drivers...
...goverment is watching us with one eye. We can see a man on the 4th or 6th floor openly filming the going-ons with a tripod-mounted camcorder. The state takes pictures of us. We show them, in turn, photos of what they have done. Many hold up the pictures of the wounded and killed, gruesome images of blood-covered chests and heads, the young and the middle-aged who have fallen. There is an overhead picture of a plainsclothes basiji rushing at a protester with some kind of club, perhaps even a knife. His face is clearly visible. Some...
Mousavi shows up, he is on the other side of the square, miniscule then unseeable, unhearable. Bishin agha! Bishin! "Sit down! Sit down!" We squat on our hams like soccer players lining up for a photo. I hold onto the shoulders of the guy sitting next to me. Mousavi never rises far enough out of the crowd for us to see him but we can track his progress through the press by the security and cameramen standing on top of his car. They float above the heads of the thousands gathered and make their way north...