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...communications channels used by extremists are now tapping them effectively to pick up chatter. "They've gotten good at not only picking up possible messages between plotters but analyzing information more quickly to determine what is just radical railing and what has substantial hidden meaning," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. Despite the continued debate over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, CIA and FBI officials insist that some high-level detainees have proved valuable in decoding talk among operatives. The war in Afghanistan and the global dragnet have taken out of circulation about half of bin Laden...
...Roland Mary and Marina Richter rented the building in 1992 with a plan to create a Parisian-style place in the heart of Berlin. "We just knew it would work," says Mary...
...revelation of the show, curated by Bruce James, is that artists like Gleeson, James Cant and Robert Klippel cut to the heart of European Surrealism, rubbing shoulders with Breton and Joan Mir? in Paris, and exhibiting with Roland Penrose and Man Ray in London. "Surrealism was not nationalistic, it was an international movement," says James. "In fact it was rampantly global in its ambitions. The term revolution was entirely justified because these artists really wanted to change the world." A decade since the National Gallery of Australia's "Surrealism: Revolution by Night" reunited the Antipodeans with their contemporaries overseas...
Science, as we all know, is supposed to be objective, but global warming is one of those scientific issues that have been hopelessly mired in politics for years, and the movie's director, Roland Emmerich, can't resist some playful partisan point scoring. He pairs a weak-willed but telegenic President with a Mephistophelian, scientifically ignorant Veep, played by an obvious Dick Cheney look-alike. After the storm hits, tens of thousands of American refugees flee south--whereupon Mexico promptly closes its borders, leaving the hapless, desperate gringos to wade in droves across the Rio Grande...
...worst central banker in history" after presiding over the crash of the ruble in 1994, to announce that Yukos had invited him to be its chairman. Gerashchenko said that while certain shareholders had problems with the authorities, Yukos as a company was sound. Can Gerashchenko save the day? Roland Nash, analyst at Moscow-based Renaissance Capital, says the move is simply "papering over cracks." Still, Gerashchenko is expected to be elected chairman after shareholders meet in late June. Compensation Overdose? Igor Landau, the CEO of Franco-German drug company Aventis, fought off a hostile takeover attempt by France 's Sanofi...