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...allure of having only one phone number is the main attraction here, but people who have ditched the landline entirely for their cell phone already have that. Vonage says that the V-Phone will be a big seller with parents who want their kids to have an easy way to call home from college or boarding school. But don't parents want their kids to have a phone at all times, not just at their computers? It is true that the V-Phone is great for anyone traveling overseas. Even if you have a "world phone" (which isn't even...
Later, the soldiers saw lights winking ahead. They were happy. They thought it was the main convoy. They had caught up. They were safe. But the closer they got, the clearer it became that something was wrong...
...dusty hilltop villages populated by Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim supporters of Hizballah, convoys of cars adorned with yellow Hizballah banners wove through the streets this afternoon honking horns at the news of the capture of two Israeli soldiers. Some people stood in the center of main roads handing out fistfuls of sweets to passing motorists, a traditional Arab gesture of celebration. "This is a great victory for the resistance," said Ali Hammoud, 32, in the town of Arab Salim...
...skilled comic actor. His Captain Jack Sparrow is still a marvelous creation. It's not just a matter of his eye makeup or his variously funny ways of walking, running or sitting still (as when he discovers, to his dismay, that cannibals have decided to make him the main course at their banquet). It's also that Jack is, in truth, a modernist, unaccountably displaced to the 17th century and obliged to undertake the mindless heroics not only of an antique movie genre but also of the spirit of an age when all are heedlessly charging into action, swords slicing...
...doing business with North Korea. Last year it helped shut down dozens of accounts at the Macao-based Banco Delta Asia, which was suspected of counterfeiting and laundering money for Pyongyang. Some diplomats in Beijing, in fact, suspect that the financial pressure the U.S. has been applying was the main reason for Pyongyang's defiant missile launch...