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...television subscriptions. Sky Italia responded with a series of advertisements aimed at their subscribers (who also happen to be Italian voters) outlining how the Berlusconi government's decision was unfair to consumers. Mediaset and RAI also recently joined forces to launch a digital terrestrial service called Tivù, modeled on a British free-to-air platform that has cut into the market share of BSkyB, Murdoch's U.K. satellite television operation...
DEFINITION pri-ven-tiv di-ten-shuhn n: Holding someone considered likely to commit a crime...
...elsewhere. Some artists take years to evolve their individual sensibility, but Chast was Chast from the very first cartoon she sold, which was titled "Little Things." It's the first cartoon in Theories of Everything, and it depicts, well, little things: tiny, humble, abstract doodles with nonsense names like tiv and spak and chent. When you look at "Little Things," you don't laugh. You experience some amused, melancholy, thoughtful emotion that is uniquely Chastian...
...NIGERIA Tit for Tat Nigerian soldiers gunned down at least 130 people, including women and children, before President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered them to stop. The killings were to avenge the hacking to death of 19 soldiers sent into Makurdi, capital of the central state of Benue, to keep warring Tiv and Jukun tribes apart...
...ended, and Israel said that the truce would begin on the first violence-free day. NIGERIA Ethnic Flare-Up Ethnic violence erupted in central Nigeria after the killing of a local leader. More than 50 people were killed in an attack on the Egon community by militia from the Tiv ethnic group. Up to 50,000 people fled their homes after a series of revenge attacks. Ethnic and religious unrest has racked Nigeria since it returned to democracy two years ago. CHINA Safe Harbor China granted safe passage to a North Korean family of seven who sought asylum...