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...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 had a right to be informed about the plans of such a strategic industrial player. Still, one government official did concede: "It's been a very bad week. We have...
...player league like the accursed Yankees and then all of a sudden you’re rooting for them? That’s kind of what it’s like with Yale in a non-conference game. Oh, except the Bulldogs haven’t won an outright league title since 1980. Ha.Prediction: Yale 34, San Diego 28—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Buttressing criticisms of the press response to Katrina was a bipartisan Congressional report released in February that outright accuses the media of making a bad situation worse. It does not specify race in its pages, but its accusations implicate press reports that it says contributed to the confusion...
Since taking over in 1994, head coach Tim Murphy has presided over a golden age of Harvard football, with three outright Ivy titles and two undefeated seasons. But this year, the Crimson sports more questions than answers...
...numerous and helicopters are in short supply. The camps in Pakistan from which Taliban fighters flow into Afghanistan (though Pakistan denies it) are off-limits lest attacks destabilize President Pervez Musharraf. Within Afghanistan, ISAF's rules of engagement don't permit it to attack the Taliban outright, but do permit "proactive self-defense" - an ambiguity exacerbated by the differing restrictions each national contingent has negotiated to the rules of engagement that reflect its government's willingness to accept casualties. On a recent trip organized by NATO, Council on Foreign Relations expert Max Boot says he heard "a British officer berating...