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...would-be reformers are running out of juice. Last week President Viktor Yushchenko fired his entire government, including former ally Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, after mutual accusations of corruption by their teams. Prices are skyrocketing; foreign investors are gun-shy as severe shortages of gasoline, meat and sugar spread. The President's move was "absolutely illogical," said Tymoshenko in a televised speech, blaming the crises on Yushchenko's cronies. The Cabinet implosion was triggered by the dramatic resignation of Olexander Zinchenko, the President's Chief of Staff, who furiously denounced as corrupt Yushchenko's top aide Olexander Tretyakov and Secretary...
...directors from 1967 to 1996 and, as head of the Luce Foundation for more than 30 years, oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, primarily to museums and educational organizations. "My father was a great role model," he said. "He was convinced that America had a destiny to spread good throughout the world, and I guess some of that rubbed...
Barreiro and his mutineers were only part of the challenge to Alfonsin. The rebellion spread to Campo de Mayo, the big army base outside Buenos Aires. At week's end some 100 officers were still holding out while 1,000 government soldiers ringed the base. The display of support reflected the anger that has smoldered in military circles since 1985, when civilian judges convicted and sentenced five military leaders, including two former Presidents, for atrocities committed from...
...Internet, [via] affordable, cell-phone-like products that are Skype- and Internet-enabled," predicts Skype ceo Niklas Zennström. In these early days of mobile VoIP, analysts find it difficult to quantify its potential impact. But many expect a shakeup. "Can carriers, either wireless or wireline, prevent its spread? The answer is no,'' says Allen Nogee of research firm In-Stat. The company forecasts that global shipments of mobile phones with wi-fi will hit 13.5 million in 2007, leap to 52.8 million in 2008, and surge to 136 million by 2010 - probably a conservative estimate...
...stunned and angry and in ever greater pain. These things happened in Haiti, they said, but not here. "Baghdad under water" is how former Louisiana Senator John Breaux described his beloved city, as state officials told him they feared the death toll could reach as high as 10,000, spread across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. No matter what the final tally, the treatment of the living, black and poor and old and sick, was a disgrace. The problem with putting it all into numbers is that they stop speaking clearly once they get too big: an estimated half a million...