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...done. But now, I had to make a move. I had to.So on Monday, I told myself that on Tuesday I’d talk to her. On Tuesday, I told myself that on Wednesday I’d talk to her. On Wednesday, I told myself that on Thursday I’d talk to her. And on Thursday, I told myself that on Friday, for sure, I’d talk to her. And as fast as the beat of a heart, Friday was upon me. The teacher was rambling on about the Native American?...
When U.S. President Obama stops off in Mexico on Thursday on his way to the annual Summit of the Americas, he will be visiting a nation that is in the news - and not in a good way. The war that Mexican President Felipe Calderón has waged against his nation's drug cartels has predictably been marked by horrible violence. Washington analysts, watching the mayhem in some Mexican towns as cartels settle old scores, fight turf wars and take the fight to overmanned (and all too often, deeply compromised) police forces, have compared Mexico to failed or failing states...
...Tech Mahindra, a Pune-based telecom-solutions provider, won the auction on Monday, agreeing to buy 31% of Satyam for $352 million, a 23% premium to Satyam's last closing price on Thursday. Tech Mahindra plans to make a public offer to acquire 20% more of Satyam shares to gain a majority stake, as required by Indian law, taking the cost of the deal to $580 billion. (Read TIME's 2006 cover story about telecommunications in India...
Passover began at sundown on Wednesday. It commemorates the Exodus from Egypt over 3000 years ago, when the Jewish people escaped but didn't have time to let their bread rise. Thursday night's seder at the White House reportedly featured a reading of the Haggadah and traditional Jewish goodies like kugel and a roasted...
About five million people, or a quarter of the population of Mexico City's urban sprawl, woke up Thursday with dry taps. The drought was caused by the biggest stoppage in the city's main reservoir system in recent years to ration its depleting supplies. Government officials hope this and four other stoppages will keep water flowing until the summer rainy season fills the basins back up. But they warn that the Mexican capital needs to seriously overhaul its water system to stop an unfathomable disaster in the future. (See pictures of the world water crisis...