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...matter what New England state Robbins may have been in, the hurt from the game was so bad that it was a topic Robbins had trouble bringing up in the presence of someone from the Evil Empire...
...violence against Darfur's Africans amounts to genocide--and about what to do to stop it. In August a mission from the European Union to Sudan concluded that the killings fell short of genocide, which is defined by the convention as a deliberate attempt to kill or seriously hurt a group of people "to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part." The U.N.'s representative to Sudan, Jan Pronk, has also stopped short of calling it genocide. "Atrocities, very bad things, killings, rape, burning of villages have taken place," Pronk told a press conference in Khartoum last...
...hedge funds are back--and bigger than ever. You may recall George Soros' minting a $1 billion profit in one month on a bet against the British pound in 1992 and later spurring the ire of small nations, which feared his currency plays would hurt their economy. Then in 1998 major hedge player Long-Term Capital Management self-destructed, and because it had borrowed so heavily, its losses threatened the health of large banks around the globe...
Shoemakers are designing fancy footwear that doesn't hurt...
...spread that complicated charisma on a bigger stage--if he wants. "I'm pretty open to work anywhere in the world," he says, "including the United States, of course." He recently made an indie drama, The King, set in Texas, in which he plays William Hurt's son. He is reputed to have turned down some big Hollywood roles, though he won't reveal which ones, "because that's not professional to say." But he is ready for his American close-up and at ease with his impending eminence. "Some things you can control, like the performance you give...