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...aggression, occupation and genocide" during World War II. The move was seen as a response to pressure by the Prussian Claims Society, a group of Germans seeking compensation for property lost when they were forced out of territories handed to Poland after 1945 - a claim angrily rejected by Poles. "I would like to underline that it was not us that started this spiral. It was the other side," said Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka. Permanent Presence BELARUS President Alexander Lukashenko announced a referendum on a constitutional amendment to allow him to run for a third term. Elected in 1994, Lukashenko...
...wide and 2 in. deep, squished a supercomputer into the casing and mounted the whole thing on a metal stand. The resemblance is not coincidental. More people buy iPods than iMacs these days, and Apple admits that this third-generation iMac is its best shot at luring millions of iPod owners further into Mac world - and inching up its current 3% share of the Windows-dominated market. Will the strategy work? Only if those iPod owners open their wallets. The new iMac starts at $1,630 in the U.K. for the smaller model with a 17-in. screen and goes...
...airlines as clients, including British Airways, Emirates and Continental Airlines, as well as operators of 1,800 corporate aircraft and 1,700 ships and yachts. The company, which also offers worldwide security consulting, fielded 23,202 calls last year for everything from remote medical assistance to emergency evacuations from Third World countries...
...breaking across Europe. Corporate giving is commonplace in the U.S., where a century ago the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller family pioneered a new type of corporate altruism. Their foundations remain models for companies and wealthy businesspeople, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose family foundation is one of the world's biggest. In Europe, however, with the exception of Britain, corporate-giving traditions were wiped out by war, inflation and the growth of the welfare state, which left firms with little incentive to dole out funds. Fueled by high taxes, governments have carried the burden of social justice. If firms...
Perhaps we should have realized something was amiss in 1980. In April of that year, Zimbabwe's newly elected Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, was appalled at the choice of the dreadlocked Third World icon Bob Marley as the main musical act for the country's independence bash. Marley tunes like Zimbabwe had helped rally the world ("Africans a liberate Zimbabwe/ Every man got a right/ To decide his own destiny") but Mugabe would have preferred the squeaky-clean Brit Cliff Richard. For once he was overruled, and the reggae star spread a message of hope that the racial strife...