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...stores, according to Marshall Meyers, executive vice president of the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council. After folks found that they adored their new cockatiel, they started going to local shops for accessories unavailable at the chains, he says. The hostility between the independents and the chains has abated somewhat, replaced by a realization that David and Goliath can help each other. Want a hedgehog? You'll have to visit a local pet shop--the big chains haven't a clue how to care for them. For hedgehog food, Petco also accommodates...
...hardly surprising that Hungarian novelist Imre Kertesz, 72, is not well known in the U.S.: only two of his books have been translated into English. But he is also somewhat of a stranger in his native country. His low profile may be in part because of the dense themes in his writing. Sent to Auschwitz at age 14 in 1944, Kertesz was transferred to, and subsequently liberated from, Buchenwald in 1945. He returned to Hungary only to endure communist rule for four decades. In his novels and essays he revisits the Holocaust, pondering, in the words of the Nobel Committee...
...Iran's state news agency. It showed that 65% of Iranians support the resumption of ties with the U.S., 75% want dialogue with the U.S. and 46% consider U.S. policies toward Iran--which include President Bush's designation of Iran as part of an "axis of evil"--to be somewhat correct. These embarrassingly pro-U.S. sentiments caused such a stir that hard-line judge Saeed Mortazavi shut down the organization that did the polling and brought charges against the head of the news agency that published it. The survey was commissioned by the pro-reform parliament's national security...
...from the world outside its gates. In 2000, caving to pressure from Metallica, Yale banned the once extremely popular but now unfortunately defunct Napster file-sharing system. Of course, when the world outside those gates is the veritable paradise of New Haven, Yale’s actions are somewhat more understandable...
...other hand, they would say, look, as you see in so many U.S. domestic cases, the evidence always has a somewhat-murky quality," says Wolfowitz. "Americans need to understand we're dealing with a country that only recently became a free country, after some 50 years of different forms of dictatorship. They're leery about (giving) too much authority to the police. The very kind of civil-liberties issues that make it difficult for us, in many ways make it much more difficult for them...