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...Musharraf earlier announced that junior military personnel were involved in the attacks on him. MEANWHILE IN BRUSSELS ... Lost in Translation The European Commission instructed staff to write shorter documents, as the arrival of 10 new member states - taking the number of official languages from 11 to 20 - threatened to overwhelm the translation service. Texts are to be limited to 15 pages, against the current average of 32. A similar order in 2001 failed to stanch the flow of verbiage...
...times, the boys and girls—from seven different schools and dressed in full uniform from their shin guards to their jerseys—seemed to overwhelm the soccer players who had awaken early yesterday for morning practice. The kids ran all over the fields and sidelines playing and rooting for their teams as the Harvard players refereed...
Upon first speaking into the microphone last night, one of the world’s best known actors had to step back from the podium so as not to overwhelm the audience with the deep, resounding voice so well known from films like The Great White Hope, Star Wars, and The Lion King...
...subscribers to send and receive e-mail, but also tap the firm's trademark keyword search facility to retrieve e-mails. The gee-whiz feature: 1 GB of free storage - between 250 and 500 times more than at Yahoo and Hotmail. That means bulky holiday snaps won't easily overwhelm Gmail's In box. "MSN and Yahoo have to respond," warns Hellen Omwando, analyst at Forrester Research. "Consumers know they're very limited with current free offerings." But Gmail will come with a catch: the service will scan messages for frequently used words, and use the information to send users...
...under close watch. But Afghan officials say Karzai is wary of cracking down too hard for fear that the warlords will lash back. In Kabul alone, militias loyal to former President Burhanuddin Rabbani and current Defense Minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim number nearly 50,000. That's enough to overwhelm, if they wanted to, the 6,000 NATO peacekeepers and take over the presidential palace. Government officials outside the capital are even more outmanned. "The warlords still have guns, they still have men, and until that changes there's nothing we can do," says a senior police officer in Kandahar...