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...around "neat-o" handheld multimedia device on the market. Though currently best used for games and movies, with the addition of few amenities - a better music interface, text messaging and a web browser, to name a few - it could even surpass the iPod as the must-have, status symbol gadget for adults...
Don’t let the name fool you: The Phoenix Landing is about as Irish a pub as they come. The owners named the establishment for the mythical bird that rises from its ashes in blazing glory — a common symbol for Ireland’s rebirth after the Anglo-Irish War. The interior of the Landing is bathed in a warm red and features authentic wooden walls. The Galway-born bartender, Niamh (rhymes with ‘Bev’—no joke), told of the St. Paddy?...
...mentioned Japanese heirs apparent for Idei's mantle. That Sony should have turned to a foreigner speaks worlds about how troubled the company's prospects have become. But last week's news was about much more than one man and one company. For if you wanted a symbol of Japan's astonishing rise from the ashes and defeat of World War II to its position as the second largest economy on earth-and a place of both broad-based prosperity and cultural creativity-then Sony...
Alliot-Marie, who spoke at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, said that France is willing to move beyond past friction with the U.S. over the war in Iraq. She said she considers President Bush’s recent trip to Europe a symbol of reconciliation and the beginning of a new trans-Atlantic dialogue...
...that the Big Mac is a useful example here, when we think of the oft-heard geo-political quip that no two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war. The Golden Arches have replaced the circled, upside-down Y with a line in the middle as the symbol of peace. Once the electricity is running in Baghdad, I think someone should open a Mickey-Dees...