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...Phil Schiller and Eddy Cue are suitably bejeaned and relaxed as they welcome me for a talk about the iPad, Apple's new product, which will be launched in a week and a half. Schiller is senior VP of worldwide product marketing, responsible for delivering Apple's latest baby. Cue is VP of Internet services, overseeing the iTunes, App and iBook online stores. (See the unveiling of Apple's iPad...
...course, am itching to try it, but first Cue takes me through the iBook application and its online store. There has been much talk of the iPad's dealing a death blow to Amazon's Kindle reader; publishers, it seems, have long yearned to escape from Amazon's tough control over pricing. I asked John Makinson, chairman and chief executive of Penguin, why he's so keen on the iPad. He told me he likes the fact that "it gives control back to us and allows us to discover how the market is developing. Frankly, when I saw the iPad...
Melissa Goodman, a staff attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Program, took on Habib’s case and filed a lawsuit on behalf of the American organizations that had invited Habib to speak. U.S. citizens have a legal right to talk to foreign scholars unless there is a “facially legitimate and bona fide reason” for the scholar to be prohibited from entering the country, according to Goodman...
...spokesman for the International Crisis Group. Stephan Keukeleire, a professor of foreign policy at Leuven University in Belgium, points out that any E.U. claims of ethical foreign policy were already undermined by the fact that its members are among the biggest arms exporters in the world. "We too often talk about the moral side of our actions, and we too often say we have a superior Western foreign policy, when obviously commercial considerations come into play. Remember, most of Saddam Hussein's weapons technology came from the West," he says...
...troops may not show themselves in downtown Kandahar. "We can shura our way to success," a senior military official actually said. Really? Not if we're depending on the Karzai regime to deliver the governance goods. I must admit utter confusion; I've never heard the U.S. military talk so ... airily before...