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That's why Donahoe, a Whitman hire at both eBay and Bain, where he spent more than 20 years, eventually becoming its CEO, carried out a series of rapid-fire changes. He emphasized, for example, fixed-price sales over auctions and got his mitts on the hands-off approach that has defined eBay for years. Many wonder whether the 12-year-old auction giant will emerge with the same DNA once Dennis the Menace departs. "Donahoe has introduced more changes in the last six months than we've seen in the last six years," says Jack Sheng, chief executive...
...young men from Srinagar, capital of the Indian portion of Kashmir, to border towns, where they crossed to militant training camps, many of them in Muzaffarabad, capital of the Pakistani portion. They returned to join a raging insurgency against the Indian government. Now, five years into an uneasy cease-fire, the trade again is mainly in apples, with only military and police checkpoints to serve as reminders that the two countries are not much closer to resolving their differences over Kashmir. "We were quite happy to have another market for our produce," says Bashir Ahmed Bashir, president of the Kashmir...
When militants attacked the Indian Parliament in late 2001--an assault blamed partly on Lashkar--the two countries came to the brink of another war. The U.S., then mopping up after defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan, helped keep them apart. The subsequent cease-fire has ushered in a few years of peace, one now endangered by the Mumbai attacks...
...Fire-related injuries...
...other charges in the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians at a busy Baghdad intersection. The Justice Department unsealed a statement given by a sixth guard recounting the 2007 incident in which dozens of people were shot. In the account, Jeremy Ridgeway describes how he and five other men opened fire on cars and even a girls' school, claiming it was done without provocation...