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...their collective rights. Serb leaders insist that the entities, and hence their Serb-dominated statelet, are sacrosanct. "We will fight" attempts to dismantle the current system, Dodik told a Serbian news agency earlier this month. Speaking to Time, the Serb Republic's President, Dragan Cavic, struck a more conciliatory note. He said the idea of a referendum calling for the secession of the Serb Republic was "crazy, suicide," but added that dissolving the entity's borders unilaterally would lead to "a crisis that I cannot imagine." He warned: "Enough blood has been spilled." Until the past few months, senior politicians...
...load of conflicts of interest and arcane maneuverings that drag down the country and scare away foreign investors. Prodi's behavior has been especially heavy-handed. In the midst of back-and-forth bickering about what the Telecom chief had told him, Prodi authorized the release of an official note recounting information shared in their two recent meetings - including market-sensitive information about Tronchetti Provera's negotiations with other companies. Even if he wasn't set on outright renationalizing Telecom, Prodi was clearly intent on putting his own stamp on its future. Coalition partners insisted that the government...
...shows on iTunes are now available in a higher-resolution format. Originally, episodes of The Office were around 110MB in size, and had pictures that were 320 pixels wide; the same episodes, sold at the same price, are now around 240MB, and are 640 pixels wide. (Note: while the files are 640x480 in resolution, widescreen movies and TV shows are letterboxed, so they actually have a height of something considerably less than 480 pixels...
...tell me “everything I always wanted to know about hedge funds but was afraid to ask.” Unfortunately, Karl had to cancel. You see, Karl had a bad day. Earlier today, Karl’s company sent its investors a little note informing them that Amaranth had “experienced significant losses following a dramatic move in natural gas prices.” How big a loss? When you consider that Amaranth was managing about $9.5 billion and its fund was up between 25 percent and 35 percent this year, the losses...
AHMADINEJAD: The issues which are of interest to us are the international issues and how to manage them. I gave some recommendations to President Bush in my personal letter, and I hope that he will take note of them. I would ask him, Are rationalism, spirituality and humanitarianism and logic--are they bad things for human beings? Why more conflict? Why should we go for hostilities? Why should we develop weapons of mass destruction? Everybody can love one another...