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...lets you watch your home television when you're halfway around the world. Don't worry if that business trip to Australia has inconveniently come just when Man U is playing Arsenal in London. With a Slingbox in the living room and an Internet-connected laptop or 3G mobile phone on the road, you can follow every live strike by Thierry Henry and Wayne Rooney just as if you were slumped into your favorite comfy chair in Highbury. Not that it's perfect: if you're in Sydney, you might have to start watching at 1 a.m. Like personal video...
...population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society. You have said your victory is a "victory for Europe." Does that mean it's a defeat for the U.S.? Absolutely not. You heard [on the congratulations phone call] that the personal rapport with the President is very good. But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe. Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S. Should the West...
...town's 38,000 population lives in public housing. "The ills of the banlieue are French ills." It's in the projects themselves that the symptoms are the most severe. In Sens' Champs Plaisants project, school-age youths roam the tenements or fake calls on street-side phone booths while working as scouts for local drug dealers. "Dealers pay kids between €20 and €30 per 15 minutes to keep a watch for police patrols or strangers in the area," says Fort, who, like many municipal officials, is implementing Borloo's measures and augmenting them with policies...
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...Skilling's testimony fly with the jury? The man famous for cussing out an analyst in a phone call had a sad, demure face as he took the witness stand two weeks ago for some gentle questioning by his attorney, Daniel Petrocelli. But Skilling's attitude toward prosecutor Sean Berkowitz - another Harvard man himself - was often dismissive; he all but said the government's guy was not smart enough to understand the company's financial charts. Later, perhaps fearing he was coming across as pompous, he stumbled over the phrase "net worth." "Is it net wealth?" he asked...