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...Afterword to Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov wrote that one of the subjects taboo to American publishers was that of "the total atheist who lives a happy and useful life, and dies in his sleep at the age of 106." New Line, having invested something like $180 million in The Golden Compass, is similarly scared of its antireligious content. The company that boldly greenlighted Peter Jackson's $300 million Hobbit ambitions before a frame of the first movie was shot, and made billions from riding that risk, hasn't said yes to films two and three of the Pullman books - although...
...total number of ballots cast dipped nearly 40 percent from last year to 2,181, with the winning ticket garnering 66 percent of the first-place votes. The low voter turnout may have been due in part to the established reputations of Sundquist, currently the council's vice president, and Sarafa, its Finance Committee chair. The two were considered the overwhelming favorites throughout the campaign...
...this sounds like paranoia, it is. But the CIA certainly is not helping by destroying evidence. And they should know better than to destroy evidence in the biggest criminal case in American history. More than anything what we need right now is complete and total transparency on 9/11...
...exchange rates are also making it cheaper for Indian corporations to snap up overseas firms. This fiscal year, India's total spending on overseas acquisitions and companies (foreign direct investment outflows) could pass $30 billion, according to a study by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Ernst & Young. That would more than double what corporate India spent abroad in the 2006-07 fiscal year, and would reflect a net outflow of FDI for 2007. And the most high-profile deal may be yet to come: Indian car firms Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra...
Whodunit - and why? Those questions remain an almost total mystery in the parcel bombing of a central Paris lawyers' office on Thursday. However, even if security officials say they're running down scant leads on who may have been behind the attack that killed one person and wounded five others, what little is known about it seems to rule out the kinds of suspects that logically first come to mind: jihadists, Corsican nationalists and extremist political groups. Hand delivery of the booby-trapped package and the technical difficulty of constructing its limited explosive strength both suggest the work...