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...mistakes," he explained to Time, noting that a final call on whether or not the E.U. will wield executive powers will only be made early next year. "The decision will be whether to stick with the plan of disbanding the ohr, or to rethink," said Schwarz-Schilling. The prospect of a weaker international presence is disturbing to many. Emsuda Mujagic, 54, is a Muslim woman who was driven from her home near Prijedor in the Serb Republic in 1992. Her village was torched and 48 family members, she says, were murdered in camps. She was able to escape and returned...
...reversing the country's negative slide that senior U.S. officials are reportedly now expressing doubts that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki can get the job done. But how likely is it that anyone else could do better? There's no longer anything on the event horizon to suggest any prospect of imminent turnaround. Previously, U.S. officials could reinforce the Bush Administration's "stay the course" message by pointing to forthcoming handovers of power or elections, the creation of a national unity government or the killing of the terrorist Zarqawi as potential watershed moments. But all those milestones have long been...
...first time on the venerable horseshoe in October and an all-weather bubble for off-season practices to be completed in December. While the stated purpose of the lights, FieldTurf, and stadium bubble is to create year-round use of the field, the additions also create the enticing prospect of night games at Harvard Stadium.“That’s our goal—to have a nice, early-season, September night game every year,” Murphy said. “Either the Brown game or the Holy Cross game, where you get the whole student...
Could Israel launch an attack on its own to cripple Iran's nuclear weapons program? It certainly has the motivation. Tel Aviv is even more worried than Washington about the prospect of Iranian nukes - those bombs might one day be loaded onto missiles that can easily reach Israel. And the Israelis have previously shown that they have the will: In 1981, Israeli warplanes set back Iraq's nuclear weapons program with a bombing raid against the Osirak nuclear reactor...
...Silicon Valley execs have been preparing for the day when the world's nontechies will also get their movie fixes (legally) online. That day took a step closer to reality last week, when Apple announced it would sell movie downloads through its iTunes store. The move raised the prospect that downloading flicks will take off among folks who don't know or care what a d-RAM chip is (that's pretty much everyone). Apple, after all, has sold more than 1.5 billion songs online, along with 45 million TV episodes. And if you believe CEO Steve Jobs, movies...