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...conversation. In the Islamic world, by contrast, the central mystery of the tape had little to do with its content and more with the process by which it had been made public. Why had the Americans produced it now? And so the tape became the perfect example of a wider truth: technologies like television may have shrunk the world, but they have not given it a common understanding...
...before 2:15 p.m. and rose a bit more on the announcement Tuesday before turning listless and closing a bit to the downside on some bad earnings news from Merck. This is a market whose most interest-rate-sensitive sectors have already run up even farther than the wider market since Sept. 21, and to whom Tuesday's 11th cut was decidedly not a surprise. The market may get a marginal boost from the nice warm feeling of a Washington stimulus package - word of a brewing deal Tuesday morning helped the pre-Fed trading - but Wall Street's winter will...
...global "company for women." For the first time in its 115-year history, she placed in stores products that were competitive with other big brands. She enlisted as an Avon lady, listening to customers and developing incentive and recruiting programs that revitalized the sales force. And as China opens wider to trade, Jung, 42, has a big advantage: though born in Toronto, she learned Mandarin from her parents...
...before taking office, Karzai needs to ease the Taliban out of Kandahar - even if they're not exactly destroyed as a fighting force. Indeed, Karzai's political version includes drawing repentant moderate Taliban leaders into a future political arrangement. Also, he can't afford to alienate the Pashtuns, or wider Afghan constituencies, by appearing to simply do the bidding of the U.S., which is not overwhelmingly popular even among anti-Taliban elements. Karzai pointedly told the BBC he had not discussed Mullah Omar's fate with Washington, insisting "this is an Afghan question." Still, Karzai?s political survival will also...
With Peljto out of the game, Cserny and Tubridy stepped in on offense to keep Harvard scoring, but Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith credited a wider effort...