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...tested the Storm's clickable screen last week when I met with Mike Lazaridis, president and cofounder of Research In Motion (RIM), BlackBerry's maker, in New York City - and I was impressed. You can press the screen to confirm menu choices, launch Web pages and open applications, a novel feature you won't find in other phones. After selecting, say, which e-mail message you want to read, you can open it by gently pressing on the screen - it actually sinks into the casing as you press, with a satisfying "click." The screen functions just like a mouse click...
...Germany's refusal to sign on to a Continent-wide bailout plan was no less necessary, says Schmidt. Such a plan would have triggered a backlash in Germany against the E.U., egged on by the ready arguments of the anti-Europe German press that Germans were paying to bail out other Europeans, he says. "It would have destroyed the idea of European integration," he says...
...militant Islam. But Corsi may have gone a little too far into enemy territory when he flew into Kenya, the birthplace of Obama's father. Kenyan immigration officials deported Corsi, they said, over problems with his visa. They made their move before Corsi was scheduled to give a press conference at which he promised to expose secret ties between Obama and Kenyan leaders, as well as a mysterious plot that would be launched should the Democratic nominee win the U.S. election...
Apart from planning to debut his book in Kenya (so far it is unavailable in bookstores here) and provide details about Obama's alleged ties to Odinga, Corsi had said that his press conference would "expose details of deep secret ties between the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a section of Kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Senator Obama win the American presidency...
...news story on Tuesday announcing Corsi's press conference, the Standard newspaper said the American author's media invitation "makes no secret of the intention to hurl dirt at Obama and undermine his campaign from his ancestral home." Among the scrum of reporters waiting for Corsi outside Kenya's immigration office on Tuesday, one local Kenyan television correspondent was wearing an "Obama '08" T shirt...