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That doesn't make her a soft touch as a negotiator. Her Palestinian counterparts say she is fair but tough to the point of stubbornness, especially on Israel's refusal to accept Palestinian demands for the right of refugees to return to their old homes inside the Jewish state. Livni's reply: Let them return to a future Palestinian state. Livni has also earned the admiration of European colleagues, who cite her lawyerly logic and pragmatism. And she has made a close friend of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whom she calls at least twice a week. "Tzipi...
...Jobs' great skill has always been integrating cutting-edge technology and making it accessible. Flat-panel monitors, moviemaking software, wi-fi, digital-music players, touch-sensitive screens - these have all been out there over the past decade or so in ragged and unpolished ways. His genius was finding and repackaging them, making the technology work to delight the masses. Similarly, Apple's iPhone 2.0 will popularize "geo-location" - think of the satellite-based navigation systems in many cars - as a way for people to communicate wherever they...
...first Android-powered phones will arrive, Google says, in the second half of the year, possibly around the same time as the new iPhone. At a recent Google developers' conference, the company showed off, for the first time, a generic cell phone running the operating system. Touch sensitive, with an onboard, motion-sensing accelerometer that can also place a user precisely on a Google satellite map, the device resembles nothing so much as an iPhone. Android, explains Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, is an open platform for developers à la Facebook; the code is theirs to modify...
...Hamit Altintop and Hakan Balta, are German-born. Germany itself reflects Europe's now swirling populace. Two strikers, Miroslav Klose and Lukas Poldowski, are ethnic Poles, and striker Kevin Kuranyi was born in Brazil. An intriguing newcomer, Stuttgart striker Mario Gomez, is a Spanish-German blend whose subtle southern touch made him the Bundesliga's second-best striker behind Bayern Munich and Luca Toni of Italy...
...stayed largely under the radar while leading the College. His name only flared up in the student body when unpopular decisions were passed down—primarily those concerning the alcohol policy and transfer admissions.Criticism over both the decisions themselves and the perception of Pilbeam as being out of touch with student desires flew following these announcements.“He’s totally not the type of person to have an authoritative stance on alcohol,” said Katharine Pilbeam ’10, adding that her father, known by many for his droll sense of humor...