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...pattern is familiar. A year ago, a 17 November hitman was injured while launching a rocket against the residence of the German ambassador. Police found drops of his blood and collected it as evidence. Then everything went into slow motion. U.S. officials claim it took four months for a Greek police crime lab to type the blood. And when it did, says the State Department in an intelligence report issued in May, the authorities "did not follow up aggressively, and made no arrest...
...pennant symmetrical, ascending or descending? Let them quibble. Suffice to note that as the range narrows, we get closer to declaring a winner in the bull-bear tug-of-war. A textbook reading, says Richard McCabe, chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, is that by late August, the pattern will be broken, the Dow's new direction evident...
...read that right, needlepoint patterns. The Los Angeles Times ran a piece last month about the "Napster-like" swapping of patterns online. Evidently, needlepoint enthusiasts scan their paper patterns into their computer and save the file to a common spot on the web. Fellow stitchers print out the file, a copyrighted pattern they normally would have bought in a store...
...just like the music execs who fume and rant about "those damn hackers stealing artists' music," the L.A. Times story quoted an executive at a pattern making company who called the several hundred online pattern swappers (mostly middle aged housewives) "the scourge of all that is decent and right." Please...
...There's certainly a pattern here: The last time Vajpayee traveled to Pakistan for talks, in February 1999, there were massacres in Kashmir on the eve of his departure, also blamed on Pakistani hard-liners opposed to the rapprochement. Indeed, the muted response to the recent killings in India suggests they weren't entirely unexpected. India's leaders are keeping their eyes on the prize, starting the peace talks, despite the killings - after all, stopping the talks may well have been the killers' objective...