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...confidence. During the heady days of the 1974 Portuguese revolution, he was a student leader of a Maoist group. As a young law professor, he launched himself on a career in the center-right Social Democratic Party, serving as Foreign Minister in the early 1990s. In 2002, on a platform of belt tightening and reform, he led his party out of opposition and into government, and soon joined Spain, then led by José María Aznar, in aligning Portugal with the U.S.-British coalition planning to oust Saddam Hussein from the leadership of Iraq. Under the primary sponsorship...
...entire world comes together for the Olympics, making the Games seem a perfect platform for plugging a product or, better yet, boosting a cause. With 2,600 competitors from 82 countries gathering for the Winter Games in Torino, Italy, everyone from peaceniks to members of crochet collectives is trying to share some of the spotlight...
...federal state. The government in Colombo still insists on a unified state. Even if some sort of compromise is reached in Geneva, President Mahinda Rajapakse, a Sinhalese nationalist elected last year, might be hard pressed to sell it to the south. Rajapakse was elected on a hard-line platform that promised to do away with the cease-fire agreement. By agreeing to the talks, he risks alienating extremist Sinhalese parties who want the Tamil uprising put down with force and whose backing helped him win office...
...Just before the Opening Ceremonies, First Lady Laura Bush had met with 100 or more members of the U.S. delegation. "You have a powerful platform here to have the world see American in a positive light," she told them. "I hope that during your time here, each of you will think of yourself as ambassadors for America." The athletes ? most of them unknowns, all of them giddy ? snapped pictures of each other, and of each other snapping pictures. "See you at home," Mrs. Bush said as she left after a final group shot. "Lots of luck...
...rights management, or DRM. As you can imagine, movie studios won't let you burn these files to DVD, or e-mail them to your friends. Vongo has a way to transfer the movies to a portable device, but the devices - Generation 2 of Microsoft's Portable Media Center platform - is only just hitting the market and, to be blunt, aren't exactly iPods. Sadly, Vongo movies are not compatible with older Portable Media Centers, including those from Creative and Samsung. The folks at Starz assure me that they are working on adding more compatible devices to their list...