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...another by the insurgency. Nongovernment organizations put the number of affected states even higher. The rebels tax local villagers, extort payments from businesses, abduct and kill "class enemies" such as government officials and police officers, and stop aid getting through to people caught in the cross fire...
...Icelanders - from cab drivers who recite economic statistics to Prime Minister Geir Haarde who travels the world calming investors' nerves - the hysteria appears overblown. "What you'd expect to see out of these windows is fire," says Finnur Oddsson, managing director of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. Instead, he peers out at a $138 million construction project at the University of Reykjavik. Iceland, he points out, has been in this situation before. In early 2006, credit agencies criticized Icelandic banks for their lack of transparency and reliance on international capital markets. Analysts' opprobrium drove the krona down by 25% against...
Olmert Under Fire...
Probst, 43, focuses her work on capturing not just a photographic instant but also the swirl of perspectives surrounding that instant. To do that, she uses a cannonade of radio-controlled cameras, arrayed about a scene and synchronized to fire at once. The result is often a complicated and even confounding story...
...story begins in 2005, when Deutsche Telekom, the former German phone monopoly, was rapidly losing ground to new competitors. Management was under fire and sensitive information was showing up in a steady stream of embarrassing newspaper headlines. Telekom's management was determined to find out who was talking to the press and stop the leaks...