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Given the enormous responsibilities about to be thrust upon his shoulders and the less than clear powers he will have to carry them out, any ambivalence Negroponte might have about his promotion would be understandable. As the government's new intelligence czar and the President's primary intelligence adviser--a position created late last year by Congress after fierce lobbying by the 9/11 commission and families of the 9/11 victims--Negroponte has the job of making sure that the kinds of intelligence stumbles that led up to 9/11 and the sorts of miscalculations about Iraq's WMD programs...
...ESTABLISHED. BUS SERVICE between Srinagar, on the Indian side of the divided Kashmir region, and Muzaffarabad, on the Pakistani side; in Islamabad. The route, agreed upon during the first visit to Pakistan in 15 years by an Indian foreign minister, will open on April 7. It is the first to cross Kashmir's Line of Control since the region was divided...
...witnessed the emergence of the new rootless, ego-driven individual as it broke free from old close-knit societies and became afflicted with craving, pride, jealousy and hatred while acting upon its newly expanded world. But unlike such modern thinkers as Hobbes and Marx, the Buddha didn't assume that a model of society was needed that could contain the rampaging egos of human beings. He proposed none of the massive restructurings of society familiar to us in our own times: revolution, socialism, democracy, capitalism or regime change. He insisted that suffering is a mental experience, born from desire, attachment...
...device rather than books, maps and mobile phones." The gadget could be a real boon if something gets lost in translation?like the location of that elusive Roppongi nightclub or Tsukiji sushi house. To sign up for the trial, apply online at www.narita-airport.jp/e-navi. You then collect your PDA upon arrival at Narita...
...businesses. Its stock price has dropped about a third since early last year. Indeed, in Japan, where there are today more mobile-phone numbers than there are fixed-line phones, POTS (plain old telephone service) is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Survival in the future depends upon phone companies' being able to provide businesses and households with a broad slate of communications and entertainment offerings, including Internet-based calling and even cable-TV-style video services. NTT may be big and rich, but the company "is not used to thinking competitively and reacting quickly" to exploit new business...