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...facilities from Australia through China, Korea and Malaysia to India, Germany and Venezuela. (The acquisition of P&O would give them control over container shipping ports in Vancouver, Buenos Aires and a number of locations in Britain, France and a number of Asian countries.) "It's not exactly a shadow organization for al-Qaeda," says Flynn. Dubai, in fact, was one of the first Middle Eastern countries to join the U.S. Container Security Initiative, which places U.S. customs agents in overseas ports to begin the screening process from a U.S.-bound cargo's point of departure...
...Torino Games this Sunday, Canada's finest sought out a little normality by hitting Torino's shopping malls and gorging at local ristoranti. Some players were "itching to play cards--friendly games," says defenseman Adam Foote, in a joking reference to the gambling scandal that has cast a shadow over the team's executive director, Wayne Gretzky. The Canadian superstars also grounded themselves with humility by mixing it up at the Olympic Village. "You're with the best athletes in the world," Canadian forward Brad Richards says of life in the insulated Village. "That's quite a feeling...
...Renner, in her third Olympics, won an Olympic medal for the first time. She had long competed in Scott's shadow until winning a bronze medal at the world championships in the sprint last year. "We promised we wouldn't say, 'It's like a dream,' because I think we really earned this," Renner said. "We have been medal contenders in this event and to actually do it at the Olympic Games, in 20 years we can have a reunion and reminisce about this day. We can share it with each other and that's pretty special...
...hardly new. The civil war killed 64,000 people from 1983 to 2001. Tamil rebels?who run their own shadow government, with courts, traffic cops and a national anthem behind their heavily defended borders?have long demanded that leaders in Colombo recognize their sovereignty. The rebels say that if this is granted, they are willing to discuss the establishment of a 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...
...feature,” he says. The main obstacle to reassembling WHRB’s hip-hop department was dismantling its original replacement: the moribund “Black Urban Contemporary” department. Felton explains, “When I began working at WHRB there was a shadow of a hip-hop department called ‘Black Urban Contemporary.’ But there was no new music coming into the department, and it wasn’t very organized—it was just a few kids who enjoyed hip-hop.” To that...