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...heard by the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel - the 25,000 Jews who live in Iran itself. The move is partly a response to Israel radio's broadcasts in Farsi. CHINA Freak Floods At least 205 people died and hundreds are missing in floods that struck northern China. In the worst-affected area, a normally arid region south of the city of Xian, nearly a meter of rain fell in just two days. Torrential rains triggered landslides and caused rivers to overflow their banks. More than 3.6 million hectares of farmland have been inundated...
...what has almost certainly been lost in the cacophony of a news week dominated by Jose Padilla, is the recognition that a major blow has been struck against al-Qaeda - in far-off Morocco...
...latest round of cuts to hit the financial sector, which lost about 25,000 staff last year. INDICATORS Breaking Windows' Hold Dell Computer, Oracle, and Red Hat are teaming up to sell computers running Linux, the free "open source" operating system. The announcement came just days after IBM struck a deal to provide Linux machines to the German government. Achtung, Windows. Bringing It Back Home China's Finance Minister says foreign companies enjoying a 15% tax rate will pay the full domestic rate of 33% from next year. The country is trying to fill budget gaps left by cuts...
...Daniel Pearl was an innocent civilian whose family never volunteered for the spotlight. So were the victims of 9/11. But the debate over their images started as soon as the airplanes struck the World Trade Center. HBO?s recent documentary In Memoriam used amateur video to chronicle Sept. 11; as someone jumps to escape the flames, a voice off camera lectures, "Don?t take pictures of that! What?s the matter with you?" Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani defended the images, arguing that we have not only a right but an obligation to watch...
...Shira B. Palmer-Sherman, Class of 2002, died after being struck by a car in Harvard Square five days earlier...