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...insists. And like other AUC leaders, he vows the group will never give up its wealth or submit to prosecution in the U.S. "We'll defend our freedom to the death," he says, a pistol slung from his hip. He leans back in a rawhide chair and calls his pet jaguar. "I don't like to keep her in a cage," he says as rifle-toting AUC soldiers in battle fatigues look on, amused. The AUC, whose top commanders are finally expected to arrive for peace talks with the government this week, is a main combatant in Colombia...
RIESCHEL: We looked at five sites and passed on everything. In '99 everyone got in trouble when maybe 17 companies were all trying to sell pet food online. At Mobius, now if we identify more than four venture-backed start-ups in a sector, we won't bite. There are at least 14 social-networking sites...
...pursuit. He begins at the dawn of man and witnesses the arrival of aliens who zap the dumb apes with higher consciousness. Uninterested in such goings on he goes to sleep and somehow wakes up in the early twenty-first century. Soon he goes from barroom oddity to household pet to valuable commodity. Escaping it all, he falls asleep and wakes up during the apocalypse where he soon becomes a meal for a mutant. It's sort of cute, but its arbitrary storyline robs it of the chance to become any sort of allegory. Since it has been written without...
...prices throughout the economy fall, wreaking havoc on profits, job creation and wages. That threat has clearly passed. Gasoline prices have jumped 20% this year. Other things are getting more expensive too, including milk, cereal, clothing, furniture and hotel rooms. Yet in most cases the increases have been marginal. Pet-food prices are up 3% to 6% this year, after three years with no increases. Computers and other electronics continue to get cheaper. The Consumer Price Index for April, reported last week, rose at an annual rate of just 2.4%. The kind of inflation that would provoke a dramatic...
...Nazi prisoners of war in the United States were permitted to eat in diners and ride in train cars in which uniformed black GI’s could not. Blood supplies were segregated by race, and it was not unusual for hotels and motels to accept the pet dog of white guests, but refuse to rent a room to an African-American...