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...highlight the fundamental relationship between economics and politics, but he also encouraged readers to question the export of American democracy. When democratization entails so many civilian deaths and economic dependence, is there any wonder that it is met with resistance and failure? It is time for a shift from the Bush Administration's vague, rhetorical emphasis on freedom to more concrete markers of democracy: human rights, peace and citizen participation...
...similar shift threatens to upend Ticketmaster's live-music business. Ticketmaster has exclusive rights to sell tickets for most of the 29,000 events organized by Live Nation, the largest concert promoter in the U.S. That eight-year-old deal, which expires next year, accounts for about 20% of Ticketmaster's $1.1 billion in revenue. Live Nation's in-house ticketing system, through which it can sell up to 10% of its inventory, is already the third largest, and taking the rest inside would make it a power. But Ticketmaster isn't waiting to be cut out of the business...
...starting on the main home page. Previously, users needed to go to the company's specialized channels like "Video," "Maps," "Books" or "Images" to see results from different kinds of media. Google calls the tweaks to its search engine "universal search." It's all part of an ongoing, fundamental shift for the Internet giant, one the company hopes will enhance the hundreds of millions of searches it performs daily...
...symptomatic of a broad breakdown of interrogation standards. A senior White House aide says the abuse had nothing to do with interrogations but was the work of a handful of bad hats egged on by a ringleader who was doing it for kicks. "It was the night shift," he says. Military officers tell TIME that reserve Brigadier General Karpinski was responsible for the wrong-doing. "When a commander says, 'I didn't know,' that in itself is an indictment," says a senior officer serving in Iraq...
...just been through," says Karpinski, who was demoted after Abu Ghraib but has claimed that she was made a scapegoat in order to deflect blame from higher-ranking officers (She has since left the military.) "He was incoherent, maybe just running on adrenaline, but he would unpredictably shift from one topic to another...