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...Proof of how bad things have become was supplied by a proposal from the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts that Macedonia and Albania swap villages, an implausible scheme that would redraw the borders and could trigger a new round of ethnic cleansing. That idea too was dismissed, thankfully. Macedonian government forces, meanwhile, continued a two-week-old offensive along the Kosovo border that has killed several civilians and forced thousands to flee. The government accuses rebels of keeping 10,000 civilians coralled as human shields. "We can hardly wait to get orders to move on and finish...
Within nations, as well, cyberactivists are working the system. Last November, U.S. election officials watched the presidential voting system evolve outside their control as supporters of Ralph Nader and Al Gore agreed to swap votes on the Internet. Here's how it worked: a Naderite in a marginal state would vote Gore while a Gore voter in a "safe" Democrat state picked Nader, boosting Gore's support in key states while retaining Nader's popular vote. (The legality of vote swapping is still being debated in some states...
...meant Francoise and Le Bistro de L'Ennuie. This was cosmopolitan but drearily bureaucratic polygamy, and I cannot help wondering if the women did not get terribly bored, not just with the Great Man, but with the schedule. Might they not have called one another up and tried to swap nights and restaurants, just to get a change of menu...
...animation brought into Korea: he watches one or two animated cartoons a day, but sometimes he spends all night in front of the computer, watching clips downloaded from the Internet. His source of information on Japanese animation comes from a Korea-based on-line site where people go to swap tips and download clips...
...deal involves a complicated four-way swap of shares. Munich Re, Allianz's cross-town insurance rival in the Bavarian capital, is swapping its 40% stake in Allianz's life insurance arm, Allianz Leben, for Allianz's 17% stake in HypoVereinsbank. Dresdner is also doing a share swap with Munich Re. In the process, the center of gravity of German finance moved a step toward Munich from its traditional base in Frankfurt. "By reducing cross-holdings, Allianz and Munich Re are laying the foundation for a crucial realignment within the German financial services sector," said Allianz chairman Henning Schulte-Noelle...