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...guys are slumping at the wrong time,” Wu said. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to pull things together this weekend...
...cannot help but find unreasonable some of Nader’s policies that I was once able to support. Nader’s advocacy of an immediate pull out from Iraq would throw the country into chaos; it also does not makes sense to have a policy that opposes globalization, a political reality that cannot be stopped...
...house's iconic tweed jacket, now cut in soft pastel colors, or a whiff of an evening dress in beaded chiffon. Nobody knows better than Lagerfeld that fashion is not about art but about selling clothes. Indeed, it may cost the house of Chanel millions of dollars to pull off the whole Kidman campaign. But why pinch pennies? At a trunk show at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City last spring, the brand pulled in $3.1 million in a single day. Now that's the kind of nice behavior everyone appreciates...
Will people actually pay for wi-fi? Can Vivato pull money out of thin air? Maybe not with prepaid cards, but, as Stalter says, the technology is way ahead of the applications, and over time alternative revenue sources are going to come crawling out of the woodwork. I thought of one myself, when I got back from Spokane. Parking in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., is so tight, it took 45 minutes of circling the block before I found a space. I spent that time doing a thought experiment: What if Vivato lit up my neighborhood with wi-fi? Then...
...insurgents hope to pull Mosul apart by targeting those people best-placed to help unify it. Threats and assassinations often target the city's professional classes, workers in its economically vital oil industry and known political moderates. "Anyone who advocates freedom and democracy is considered to be publicly for America and a target," says Rooa al-Zrary, a Mosul journalist whose father, the editor of a moderate newspaper, was murdered last year. Doctors are fleeing, finding work in Erbil. "The situation is bad and getting worse," says a surgeon at Salaam Hospital, the city's largest. Adds a colleague...