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...only one seeing his summer vacation plans implode. Arts enthusiasts from around the world arrived in France last week for the annual summer festival season, but were treated to an unwelcome drama, as half a dozen marquee events were canceled - including the legendary Avignon festival, shut down for the first time in its 57-year history. On Thursday, Avignon director Bernard Faivre d'Arcier somberly announced his program had fallen victim to unruly protests by striking performing-arts workers - strikes that torpedoed music festivals in Aix-en-Provence and La Rochelle earlier in the week. Many more events in France...
...outsource tasks such as research and development. Then the bubble burst, stock prices plummeted and many firms - and their shareholders - saw their merged dreams vanish. "People bought air," says Jean-No?l Vieille, equity research director at the French broker Aurel Leven. Companies slammed on the merger brakes - which helped shut down an already dragging global economy. Now a new flurry of eye-catching deals is pointing to a recovery. In the U.S., the software company Oracle has launched a $6.3 billion hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft. In Europe, BP and Russia's TNK have signed a $6 billion deal...
...said most of the attacks were “denial of service attacks,” in which a hacker searches for a vulnerable computer on a network and floods the system with activity. This influx can slow down and even temporarily shut down a computer network...
...radio programs discuss family values and declining morality among today's youth. But anyone steeped in Christian code words recognizes that the show is little more than a thinly veiled religious sermon?and the authorities either haven't caught on or think the program is too innocuous to shut down. "Loving your neighbor is very important," says one caller to a Xiamen city radio show. "We must all remember that." In Indonesia, where the Muslim majority isn't forced to hide its religiosity, spirituality is still only reluctantly covered by the print media and television. "Most TV stations...
...radio to rally the masses. Radio, after all, reaches even the remotest hinterland, as those listening secretly to the BBC World Service in places like Burma or Tibet know. When Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines in 1972, one of the first things he did was shut down the radio stations. For Marcos and other autocrats, radio was a tool of subjugation, not incitement. Citizens across Asia were forced to listen to monotonous government broadcasts trumpeting the latest made-up economic statistics or warming relations with an irrelevant African republic...