Word: snubs
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...film industry, taking small, independent films out of the art-house ghetto and into the mainstream. He has also been skewered in a new book for his fearsome temper and ego. He talked with Time's Jeffrey Ressner about that reputation, and a Miramax film that suffered an unexpected snub...
...also notes that "the information economy is moving east," to countries like India and China , which are finding tech solutions that work for them. China last month chose Linux's operating system for a million computers - with 199 million more to follow. That's a no-brainer, not a snub of Microsoft Windows. Open-source software like Linux is easily modified for Asian languages, cost-free and quickly being adopted by governments all over Asia . Bridges work better when the tolls are low. - By Michael Brunton It Won't Go Away Talks aimed at resolving a decade-long legal fight...
...Bernstein, The Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—pushed already inflamed tempers over the breaking point, when they mocked Princeton students and spread rumors of Harvard’s decision to snub Princeton in their magazine...
Perhaps, but Mandela may have anticipated the snub. Asked at the press conference last Friday if he would discuss the Iraq war with President Bush, he replied, "I know he's coming to see [President Thabo Mbeki], but I cannot be sure if he's going to want to meet me. So I won't be able to tell him anything." And Mandela seems ready to initiate detente: "I have said what I wanted to say," he added, "and I don't have to repeat it." --By Tony Karon and James Carney
...Koreans? They sent a worker bee: Li Gun, deputy director general of their Foreign Ministry's American Affairs Bureau. Officials of that rank can, at best, serve as one-way broadcast machines for prerecorded messages from Pyongyang. Just to make sure the Chinese and Americans didn't miss the snub, Pyongyang also arranged for General Jo Myong Rok, Kim's No. 2, to be in Beijing when Kelly arrived?but unavailable for the talks...