Word: wars
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...meeting of international business and legal executives in London. The conclusions from the conference, organized to address issues affecting international commerce, led the director of the FBI's national infrastructure center to dire postulations. "Companies and private-sector entities are the new targets for terrorism and acts of war," he told Reuters. Internet crime, he added, is spreading rapidly and will affect everyone...
TIME: In New Delhi you are held responsible for last summer's war with India. How do you hope to normalize relations with India...
With the richness of brocade and the smoothness of shot silk, Schama's prose unfurls the life of Rembrandt in all its pathos. From prodigy to pauper, the troubled genius of 17th century Dutch painting is intricately conceived as he rises and falls in a world of war, plague and stolid bourgeois comfort. A galvanic force--ambitious, hugely inventive, avaricious--he is the portraitist of the poshest plutocrats, nobly aglitter, and the allegorist of human wreckage. Schama's book is a marvel of storytelling: sometimes heart pounding, always sympathetic and coolly reasoned. Seamlessly joining social history and art, what...
...Cuban-American community in Miami is holding the boy up as an anti-Castro cherub to keep the heat up on their political agenda and put pressure on Washington not to return the boy to his father, while the Cuban government is turning the issue into an epic Cold War crusade when all they really have to do is let the father travel to Miami and let any family court judge release Elian to him." But that would be passing up a propaganda gift...
...taken in retaliation for the U.S. visa clampdown. Other spy watchers point to the expulsion midyear of two Russian spies from the U.S., and to Russian posturing ahead of parliamentary elections this month. Leberknight has until Dec. 11 to leave Russia. But unlike the situation in Cold War days, when snatched spooks might be held in solitary or beaten, she is likely to get out in one piece...