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Aaron sidestepped Dershowitz’s evidentiary presentation of a pattern of illicit gambling, instead choosing to focus on Rose’s accomplishments as a player...
...protest is a classic Chinese political tactic. The 1989 protests that led to the Tiananmen massacre began with a memorial gathering for Hu Yaobang, the disgraced Chinese Communist Party General Secretary. Last week's huge march in Hong Kong against new antisubversion laws (known as Article 23) fit the pattern--with crowds estimated at 500,000, it was the largest pro-democracy protest in China since 1989--as does a rally planned for this week at the city's Legislative Council offices. "It's not just about Article 23," notes Allen Lee, a Hong Kong delegate to China's National...
...acquisitions. To compete in an ever-globalizing marketplace, companies must keep growing, he says, with many aspiring to become the leaders in their industry. That leaves them no choice but to buy up rivals. "You are forced to participate," he says. The latest mergers are following a different pattern from ones at the height of the boom. In the heady late 1990s, M and A deals in telecommunications, technology and the media were based on guesses about consumer demand for new services. By contrast, many of the big deals at the moment involve old-school companies in cyclical industries such...
...decades, doctors have been intrigued by the apparent health benefits of the so-called Mediterranean diet, which is not really a diet the way most people think of one. It's more of a dietary pattern--or rather, several complementary dietary patterns that have existed around the Mediterranean basin for centuries. Typical Mediterranean diets emphasize lots of fruits, cooked vegetables and legumes, grains (whole, not refined) and, in moderation, wine, nuts, fish and dairy products, particularly yogurt and cheese. But most Americans tend to focus on one component of these diets--olive oil--as if it were a magical potion...
...reduced risk of dying from heart disease (down 33%) or cancer (24%). But the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, was unable to link the health benefits to any one ingredient, not even olive oil. "It's only when you see the whole pattern that you see a statistically significant reduction in mortality," says Dr. Antonia Trichopoulou, the study's lead author and a professor at the University of Athens Medical School. Her working hypothesis: the health benefits of the diet stem from the interaction of all its various components...