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The article "The Long Goodbye" [May 9] makes a good point concerning the choice for the electorate in the recently concluded election. Blair and the Labour Party have been given a new mandate; however there have been a few hitches - George Galloway, anyone? Considering the result that the Liberal Democrats...
...experience of deprivation and tyranny during the Nazi and communist eras made him understand his important role. He cherished dialogue with people from different religions, and that helped promote understanding among nations and religious groups. He was a Pope who never hesitated to visit and reach out to Third World countries...
...note, though Associated swats away the suggestion. How do free papers make money? By aggregating enough eyeballs - generally young and urban - to lure advertisers. Many newspapers already rely more heavily on ad revenues than on circulation; ad sales represent almost two-thirds of total revenue among British titles, and 57% among those in Germany, according to the World Association of Newspapers (wan). But overall, advertisers are turning increasingly to other media. Newspapers' share of worldwide advertising spending has dropped around 5% in the past 10 years. While it's not clear to what extent free papers are squeezing paid...
...career as he was--"I think I spent most of my teenage life grounded from the computer," he says--but he convinced them the old-fashioned way: with cold cash. When he placed third at a major tournament in Dallas, he went home, slapped a check on the table and said, "I won $4,000 playing a video game!" Since then, Wendel has been world champion of the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL)--the gamer's equivalent of the NBA--three times. Over the next three months, he'll play in tournaments in Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Germany, France and Finland...
...second third of The Plot turns into a minor detective story as a correspondent for the London Times discovers the similarity between Protocols and a nearly forgotten French parody of Napoleon III. A major portion of The Plot compares passages from both sources in an effort to expose the obvious similarities and outright plagiaries, a comparison that the Times used to declare The Protocols a fake in 1921. The final, melancholy third of The Plot examines the enduring virus of Protocols, which, in spite of numerous, incontrovertible findings of being wholly forged, continues to be published the world over...