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...prisoner exchange, it is with Hamas that they're forced to deal, albeit via Egyptian mediators. The fast-emerging conventional wisdom is that no peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is possible without the consent of Hamas, which is why Western and Arab governments have set much store by Egypt's efforts to mediate a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. The dynamics around the conference, however, are likely to render that prospect more remote, at least in the short term...
...rules for the waiting game. The attraction of Netflix for many users - that you can watch a movie at your convenience and return it at your whim - is an annoyance for those subscribers interested in films that the company has fewer copies of. Most customers at a video store don't keep a title long, because they're paying more every day it's out. But since Netflix lets titles stay out indefinitely, it has no way of determining when a member will return an old movie, and thus when it will become available for you, the next in line...
...funny thing happened on the way to the App Store: native apps took off, probably beyond anyone's wildest expectations. Given a choice between using the browser and using native apps, for most iPhone users there was no choice. Native apps won, hands down. With more than 65,000 apps available for the iPhone today, some pundits speculate that apps use, rather than Web use, will be where all the action is within a decade. (See the 25 best blogs...
...assassinated Luis Carrero Blanco, the Prime Minister whom Franco had picked to succeed him. By the end of the decade, it had killed hundreds more people. And in the 1980s, the clandestine organization carried out a series of highly visible attacks: a car bomb parked at a Barcelona department store in 1987 left 21 dead; another, in 1986, exploded as a convoy of civil guards passed, killing...
...Indians were the fastest-growing Asian group in the U.S., marketers went berserk. Wells Fargo started sponsoring Bollywood concerts. MTV launched a channel just for South Asians. That's why municipalities make such an effort too. When companies make expansion plans - when they decide where to build their next store or where to open a satellite office - it can make a big difference whether your city has 100,000 potential shoppers and employees to offer, or just...