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...crazy talk, in fact, is mostly theater. U.S. and Iranian flashpoints in Iraq and the Persian Gulf have been quiet recently, as both sides have been careful to avoid a sustained clash that could escalate into outright conflict. And Iran showed no new military capabilities with the tests. At the same time, diplomacy is deadlocked as Iran takes advantage of soaring oil prices to trump U.N sanctions, while the U.S. sticks to its insistence that Iran suspend its uranium enrichment program before Washington will hold negotiations. European efforts to end the impasse have so far served largely as a convenient...
...Gates was always more accustomed to being a disruptor than being disrupted. At the age of 25, he licensed a primitive operating system, PC-DOS, to IBM for $80,000 rather than sell it outright, a move that's usually ranked as one of the Greatest Business Moves of All Time. Gates figured that many PC makers would copy IBM's open architecture, and make their own PCs; they'd need to license an operating system, too. PC-DOS soon became MS-DOS, an operating system for all IBM clones, and Microsoft was on its way to becoming...
...humanitarian crisis in the coming years will be a deepening political one, analysts predict. Pretoria-based Zimbabwe expert Chris Maroleng, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, describes the three months since the first round of voting on March 29 - in which Tsvangirai came out ahead, but without the outright majority that would have ruled out a runoff - as a creeping military coup. The army, police and government-sponsored militias have fanned out across the country, killing, beating and displacing opposition supporters, wresting control of the media, electoral bodies and the judiciary and refusing to cede power even...
...worrisome. They see multiculturalism as the celebration of various ethnic cultures at our national culture's expense. And when that celebration is linked to the claim that America's national traditions are racist--as it sometimes is on college campuses--conservatives begin to suspect that multiculturalism is leading to outright disloyalty. That's why conservative talk radio and Fox News went berserk a couple of years back when some immigrant activists paraded through America's cities waving Mexican flags. It confirmed their deepest fear: that if you let people retain their native tongue and let them spurn American culture...
...have become common in the run-up to the second round of Zimbabwe's election on June 27. The vote is deemed necessary because even though MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai came out ahead in the presidential poll on March 29, according to official results, he didn't get an outright majority. Earlier hopes that the vote might end Mugabe's 28-year rule quickly evaporated. Instead, the first-round results turned out to be a cue for Zimbabwe's security services and pro-Mugabe militias to rampage across the country...