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...cars haven't exactly taken the world by storm. Reva - which has received venture capital from Draper Fisher Jurveston, the Global Environment Fund and Mellon HBV Master Global Event Drive Fund - has sold only 3,000 cars over the past eight years. Half of those have been exported to Europe, mainly to London...
...Thank you for the fair and well-written article "The Storm Over the Mormons." Over the years, as I have made decisions on which newsmagazine to subscribe to, I have always come back to the consistently objective and informative reporting in TIME. Eileen Nagle, Springville, Utah...
...deliberately keep its own director in the dark about a secret program? The latest storm to break over Langley emerged after the New York Times reported over the weekend that former Vice President Dick Cheney had ordered that the program be kept from Congress's oversight committees. Apparently, CIA Director Leon Panetta was told of the program's existence on June 23, four months after he took over the agency. Within 24 hours, he had canceled it and briefed the congressional oversight committees of its existence. Amid the uproar over how and why the agency kept Congress in the dark...
...into Australian universities - many of them Asian - has heightened tensions. In an ugly series of incidents in Victoria in recent months, Indian students have been attacked in so-called "curry bashings." (Indians are the second largest group of foreign students in Australia, after the Chinese.) The attacks caused a storm in India, and when Rudd called Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to congratulate him on his recent re-election, Singh brought up the assaults. (See pictures of Australia's apology for its past aboriginal policies...
...subsequent media storm has rained an almost daily shower of gossipy tales upon the Italian public. On June 5, Spanish daily El Pais published photographs that showed topless women and a nude man partying at Berlusconi's Sardinian villa. And then there was the investigation, later dropped, into allegations that he'd used a government airplane to fly in young women and showbiz performers for private functions...