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...Putin is not alone in thinking the Americans have given Albanian terrorists too much succor. But across the international community there was general agreement on the best holding pattern: keep arms and men from Kosovo out of Macedonia, back the Macedonian government in its fight against the insurgents, and hope the government wins...
...month later the former political activist remains in custody, and according to someone close to the family, the accusations against him are "very similar" to the espionage tag the government last week hung on researcher Gao Zhan, who has been held since Feb. 11. The latest detentions fit a pattern. A Chinese court last November sentenced Stanford professor Hua Di to 10 years on charges linked to spying; in 1999, police detained Dickinson College librarian Song Yongyi for six months...
Investors wanted the stock so badly they bid it up to $239 in a day. Bullish analyst reports came in weeks later, and guess what? The stock fell steadily. It's now under $4. That pattern was not unusual. It suggests that the only thing investors were paying attention to was their dreams. And that's the best disguise of all, really. You tell yourself instant wealth makes sense; it's your turn to hit the lottery. But of course we can't all hit the lottery together. In the end a dream is exactly that, whether there...
...Kadlec: I think this is the pattern we're going to be seeing on Wall Street for a while. We had a really nice rally - the Dow has really surged, picking up 800 points since what was seemingly a spontaneous turnaround Thursday afternoon, and even the NASDAQ has been pretty strong...
...Oslo agreement was signed, Arafat could be heard on Jordanian radio pledging to take back all of Palestine. Soon after, during a speech at a South African Mosque, he vowed to carry the Jihad to Jerusalem. And so the pattern continued, with one message broadcast to western media, a very different one to the Arab World. By repeatedly reinforcing the notion that compromise was not an option, the groundwork for peace was never established...