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Eleven directors of international repute each made a film intended to be precisely 11 min., 9 sec. and one frame long. Some were poignant (Sean Penn's, on a man living in the shadow of the Towers), some funny (Idrissa Ouedraogo's parable of African boys who spot an Osama...
The P.L.A.'s new doctrine came together in 1999, say military analysts. It still carries its old name, "Active Defense," but the stress has moved to the first word. Especially worrying to Washington is the movement "toward the goal of surprise, deception and shock effect in the opening phase of...
MobilCom might have been a great company if it didn't get saved so often. Burdened by debt from its 3G venture, the firm faced insolvency after France Telecom stopped its funding. Then Gerhard Schröder, mindful of the elections and the 5,500 jobs at risk, announced a...
For all his "get tough on crime'' talk, Silvio Berlusconi's overhaul of Italy's justice system is remarkably sensitive to defendants' rights. The billionaire Prime Minister has pushed through new laws that ease penalties on fraud cases and require judges to toss out evidence gathered abroad if it has...
Baghdad's highly general letter didn't take U.S. officials entirely by surprise: "Everybody expected that at some point the Iraqis would come up with a half answer," says a senior State Department official. But it mucked up the White House's carefully calibrated strategy to ram through a beefed...