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...their families. Our soldiers are risking their lives in a large way. You can risk yours in this small way. Never in any living person's lifetime--not even during World War II--has every American's personal security (rather than an abstraction called national security) been at stake the way it is today. Good Americans shouldn't undermine this campaign to make everybody--including you--a lot safer by trying to make you and yours a little bit safer than everyone else. Yet even in the midst of a nationwide flag-waving orgy, this is an argument our government...
...Germany's Mannesmann, a hat trick that netted him better global reach and, after the related sale of the mobile phone company Orange, a clean balance sheet. Earlier this month Gent gained control of Japan Telecom, that country's No. 3 provider. The deal also increased Vodafone's stake in mobile unit J-Phone and gives the company a major foothold in one of the world's fastest-growing and most profitable mobile markets...
...impart to the book certain aspects of himself. Alongside the transformation of the Chávez family was the transformation of Martínez. His interest in the Chávez story extended far beyond that of a journalist covering a beat. He had a personal stake invested in making the Chávez story known, and said he felt a great responsibility in telling the story; an obligation to those before him who crossed the border and those who died due to the hypocrisy of border laws. “Their story is my parents’ and grandparents?...
...short takes, just long enough to reveal relevant facts about Bridges’ family issues, Spacey’s good heart and the various personalities of the patients in quick succession. Rarely do the characters interact meaningfully, and they don’t seem to have much at stake as they follow the premise of the movie to its conclusion...
...however, everyone - Balinese, Javanese and foreigners - seems to be in a kind of daze, not understanding what is happening in the world or how they should feel about it, or what Indonesia?s stake in all of this might be. Meanwhile, the country seems to be drifting right into the line of fire in this conflict, without giving it too much thought. The information available to Indonesians is quite limited and overwhelmingly biased...