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...joint endeavor, without the prejudice of vested political interests? I’m not so idealistic as to suggest that a permanent peace can be won solely through the Games, or that we should press for a return to the ancient Greeks’ practice of an all-encompassing truce for its duration. But it is not naïve to think that through the Games, we can work to at least partially fulfill Coubertin’s goals. To be sure, it would require a radical shift in the way the Games are operated, thought of, and trained...
...Parsons and install a new slate of directors as a precursor to a company breakup. Parsons and Icahn talked about striking a deal, but the talks stumbled after Parsons declined to appoint two of Icahn's handpicked directors. Icahn scaled back that demand, and the two finally reached a truce last week." I don't think shareholders were ready to give me the keys," Icahn told the New York Times. (Icahn declined to talk with TIME...
...nothing else, both sides managed to save face after months of accusations and mounting acrimony. Just 10 days before the truce, Icahn, at a glitzy press conference in New York City, had defiantly called Parsons out, accusing him, among other things, of selling Warner Music at a fire-sale price and being too slow to find a growth plan for the AOL unit. Time Warner execs insisted that their strategies with Warner Music and AOL were appropriate under the circumstances...
...them together in a room, they'll move onto the big picture." But the Tigers have already threatened to pull out of the Geneva talks after suspected paramilitary death squads kidnapped eight Tiger social workers on Jan. 29. For its part, the government wants to amend the truce, which it claims gives the Tigers too much freedom of movement. On that point, the Tigers won't give an inch...
...Lankans seem to have quickly forgotten the spirit of cooperation that flickered briefly after the tsunami. Across the Indian Ocean in Aceh, the disaster persuaded guerrillas and the Indonesian government to declare a truce and work together. Sri Lanka had a similar opportunity. International donors pledged more than $7.5 billion in development and tsunami aid?that's $375 for every person on the island. But bitter squabbles over how to share the cash?last summer, nationalist Sinhalese and Buddhist monks claimed giving aid to the Tigers legitimized terrorism?only aggravated divisions. Hagrup Haukland, Norwegian chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring...