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...OECD countries, broadband penetration averages 18%.) And the services that exist don't come cheap. Broadband costs more in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else in the world: consumers in the region spent an average of $366 each month for speedier Internet access in 2006, according to the World Bank. Users in India, meanwhile, paid just...
...Universal Soldier and No Retreat, No Surrender. Van Damme's career trajectory over the last decade has been direct-to-video; so he must have figured that, when he was offered the chance to play himself, more or less, as a hapless has-been who gets enmeshed in a bank robbery, he had nothing to lose. He was right: JCVD is the best movie he ever made (granted, not the highest encomium), and a cogent, probing critique on celebrity in its downalator phase...
...back in Brussels where cab drivers and video-store hounds still recognize him, but nothing else is going right. His agent's screwing him, he's lost custody of his child in an embarrassing court case and, now, as he enters a bank to try to cash a check, he finds it's been commandeered by robbers. The cops on the street figure Van Damme must have cracked and gone to the dark side, while the perps are only too happy both to exploit his fame and taunt him for being unable to overcome their guns with his kickboxing...
...money with it. Despite this early blow, Harvard Management Company, which invests the University’s endowment, credited its practice of monitoring external investments with keeping total returns in the black. The downturn accelerated in recent months as lenders spooked by steep losses and high-profile bank failures have tightened their purse strings. While recent government intervention has calmed markets somewhat, Harvard’s money managers wrote in their annual letter to investors announcing this year’s returns that they are “keenly aware” that the slide may continue...
...Timmons, who is not leading the effort, is working on the McCain transition-planning with former Navy Secretary John Lehman Jr., a friend and traveling companion of McCain's who runs an investment bank and recently served on the national commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept...