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...accept Iran as a nuclear power and learn to live with an Iranian bomb, focusing its efforts on deterrence rather than pre-emption. The risk is that a nuclear-armed Iran would use its regional primacy to become the dominant foreign power in Iraq, threaten Israel and make it harder for Washington to exert its will in the region. And it could provoke Sunni countries in the region, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to start nuclear programs of their own to contain rising Shi'ite power...
...Even worse, Lenovo is being buffeted by the some- times tense relations between the West and China. In May the U.S. State Department said 16,000 PCs it had purchased from Lenovo wouldn't be used for classified work after a Congressman claimed that the Chinese-made computers would threaten national security. Lenovo's chairman, Yang Yuanqing, insists his computers pose no security risk...
...cash machine going, I called a celebrity-endorsements agent who works on these kinds of deals, which are apparently so touchy that she?or he?requested anonymity. Let me make it clear that if the feds threaten me with jail to give up her or his name, they will not have to ask twice. Meanwhile, to protect her identity, I will call her Jamie, since that will give absolutely nothing away because all agents are named Jamie...
...Shut Up! A curious case may mean that debt collectors can't threaten to sue their targets unless they really mean...
...Shut Up! A curious case may mean that debt collectors can't threaten to sue their targets unless they really mean...