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...because that would further strengthen the euro. Right now, the most Trichet can do is complain. Dividing to conquer? Could an antitrust cease-fire between Microsoft and its most bitter rivals spell trouble for the E.U.'s competition police? The software behemoth last week convinced its competitor Novell to lay down arms in exchange for a $536 million payoff; Microsoft also ended a battle with the Washington D.C.-based Computer & Communications Industry Association. (Cell-phonemaker Nokia quit the trade body in response, calling the deal "inappropriate.") In return, both parties agreed to withdraw support for the European Commission's antitrust...
...took a pass at the blueline from tri-captain Nicole Corriero, then had a strong charge to the goal and fired. Thomas made the initial save, then snatched the puck out of midair with her glove as she lay on her side, while players swarmed the crease...
Desai is a literary watercolorist who writes as if TV had not been invented, registering sounds and sights as a way to suggest more subtle currents underneath. As she describes Mexico, her prose catches fire with the smoke of copal, the "shriveled scorpions and fried grasshoppers" the Zapotec women lay out on the sidewalks, the trucks "rattling over cobbles the shape and size of human skulls." The skeletons that dance behind even a hotel reception desk remind us that the past here has the present in its thrall...
...wasn’t sure what Alanis meant back then. I was naive and without any understanding of how my curious interest would one day manifest itself as a full-fledged fetish. Perhaps the genesis lay in that episode. Freud would certainly agree, especially after I revealed to him that I’ve mysteriously never heard my mother utter such an oath. But origins are irrelevant; the obsession is here, and for now I can just cross my fingers and hope to one day find a rock star woman who might understand my need and fill me with constant...
...woke up this morning and, amazingly, didn’t hit snooze. I jumped right up. I went to my phone to see if I had a missed call from you, even though I knew I hadn’t. I fell back onto the bed and just lay there, hoping I would fall asleep again and this time when I woke up, last night would never have happened...