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W. regrets almost nothing
In the French imagination, Barack Obama is already the president. To the French, the Democratic primary was the full general election. The word "élite" is not a pejorative here; it's a compliment. It does not occur to Parisians that Am Jun 16 2008
Waging a tiny rebellion via shortwave radio
: The kid has a sharp eye. Look, mom, he says, pointing, there's a crazy-man on that roof. What he sees, about an hour past twilight, is a guy on the second-floor roof-terrace of a small white edifice, holding what in the just-short-of-blackness prob Feb 9 2008
Wagner family divided over bayreuth festival
Gérard Mortier, who is set to become general manager of the New York City Opera, and Nike Otto Wagner, a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, have said that they are connection forces to seek control of the Bayreuth Festival. The attempt is a Aug 28 2008
Wal-mart announces new ethical and environmental principles
Wal-Mart announced wed in Peking that it would require manufacturers provision goods for its shop to adhere to stricter ethical and environmental standards, the latest effort by the world's biggest retailer to reply criticism of its concern patt Oct 23 2008
Wall street mood swing: gloom gives way to (premature?) optimism
Main Street may be struggling, but Wall Street is on a bit of a roll. contempt a rub-a-dub of bad economic news, the stock marketplace is up — about 11 percent in the last few weeks. Junk bonds, those risky corporate IOUs, are rallying. The value o May 2 2008
Wall street's slow demise
With breathtaking speed, the world of large Wall Street investment banks has vanished. Fabled firms, some more than a century old, have been merged out of being (Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch), gone insolvent (Lehman blood brother), or sought asylum as comm Sep 30 2008
Want obama in a punch line? first, find a joke
What's so funny about Barack Obama? Seemingly not very much, at least not yet. On mon, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad sarcasm involving Senator Obama with a cover image depiction the presumptive Democratic presidential Jul 15 2008
Want to be heard in india? you'd better form a militia
Not long ago, functionary in this seaboard megalopolis announced plans to retire taxicabs built earlier 1983. This was no group idea: So withered are Bombay's taxis that they must often shut the radio when they need the HP to climb a hill. Oct 24 2008
Want to work better? take a vacation
At a time when gasolene prices are going up and the economic system is sliding, it seems hard to justify a holiday when many people are glad just to have jobs. But vacations are not merely a luxury; there is increasing evidence that they truly are ne Jun 10 2008
War of words
: When you find yourself at a wedding ceremony discussing how more than 800 people have been killed and more than 250,000 kicked out of their homes for having certain ethnic origins, you know there is something terribly wrong with your state. Living in ca Feb 13 2008
War splits orthodox churches in russia and georgia
While leaders and generals quarrel over the strategic map of Empire State of the South and Soviet Union's hereafter relations with both its neighbors and the West, the Christians of both nations have fretted over the worrisome loss of Orthodox u Sep 6 2008
Warren buffett says 'game is over' for freddie and fannie
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage finance companies, "don't have any net worth," the billionaire investor Robert Penn Warren Buffett said. "The game is over" as mugwump companies said Buffett, the 77-year-old chairman of Berks Aug 23 2008
Warships of 2 big powers pursue somali pirates
For a minute, the plagiarist might have idea that they had truly struck gold — Somalia-style. The gun-toting, seafaring stealer, who habitually pounce on cargo ships bobbing along on the North American Indian Ocean, all of a sudden found thems Sep 27 2008
Wary of islam, china tightens a vise of rules
The grand masjid that draws one thousand of Moslem each week in this oasis town has all the usual caparison of piety: dusty wool carpets on which to kneel in supplication, a row of turbans and skullcaps for men without headwear, a wall niche facing the ho Oct 19 2008
Wary u.s. olympians will bring food to china
: When a caterer working for the United States Olympic Committee went to a supermarket in China last year, he encountered a piece of poulet — half of a breast — that measured 14 inches. "sufficiency to feed a household of eight," said Frank Pu Feb 10 2008
Washington mutual shareholders ask chief to give up post of chairman
Washington D.C. Mutual, the largest U.S. Economy and loan company, has announced that its shareholders have voted to ask the chief executive director, Kerry Killinger, to give up his role as president, after huge losses linked to the American housing mark Apr 17 2008
Washington mutual starts talks aimed at finding a savior
Washington D.C. Mutual, the largest U.S. Economy and loan association, has begun exploring a sale in the event that it cannot find some other way to raise additional capital, according to people close to the dialogue. Just last week, the company said Sep 19 2008
Washington mutual stock falls on investor fears
As Wall Street scoured the financial industry wed for the next weakest link after Lehman Brothers, it set its sights on a familiar target: Washington D.C. Mutual, the state's largest savings and loan. Shares in the troubled lender, one of those Sep 12 2008
Washington's hypocrisy
The U.S. Disposal is trying to stick the label of "bad guy" on Soviet Union for exceeding the peacekeeping mission mandate and using "disproportionate force" in the peace-enforcement operation in Empire State of the South. Maybe our American friends Aug 19 2008
Watching china with an eye on the soviet union
A dash of openness can be a dangerous thing in an autocratic state. Mikhail Gorbachev discovered this two decennary ago when his political campaign to inject some day into Soviet society doubled back on him like a heat-seeking missile. Now China' May 19 2008 |