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...makes her way through the bombed-out courtyard with the water pump in the middle - Grozny has no running water and no electricity - to the end of the block, then turns left toward the clinic, which stands in a patch of open ground. There she passes a fresh grave amid the garbage. It contains two bodies, burned beyond recognition, that locals discovered recently in the grounds of a nearby kindergarten. The residents buried them there and surmise they were killed during a military raid. No one was surprised by the discovery: as another resident of the courtyard, a pretty teenager...
...Bush still might sell Aegis air-defense radar to the island. If he does, "relations with the U.S. could worsen permanently, and Jiang will lose the greatest pillar of his legitimacy," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing. Last month China dispatched foreign policy mandarin Qian Qichen to Washington to patch up relations; Bush chose to receive Japan's doomed Prime Minister first, underscoring Tokyo's privileged position. "I'm frustrated," says a Chinese foreign policy adviser criticized by leaders for being too pro-U.S. "China might pay a price, but the Bush Administration needs to be taught a lesson...
...than Judge Patel's, ruled in favor of Sony because Sony's customers, not the company itself, were the ones violating copyright. Judge Patel, in contrast, feels that Napster actively encourages its users to pirate music, and thus closed the loophole around the company. Unfortunately, there's no software patch for a quick civil courts system and a judge with a creative interpretation of the spirit...
...Harvard and Boston officials celebrated the announcement yesterday of a major initiative to fund Boston afterschool programs, University administrators scrambled to patch relations with the Cambridge mayor over a planned Harvard venture into Cambridge education...
...worked out, but Serb troops would have to withdraw first from the frontline. Established after the nato bombing of 1999 as a no-go area for Serbian troops and intended to keep nato and Serbian forces apart, the zone has become a haven for rebels attempting to annex their patch of southern Serbia to Kosovo...