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...time it was over, more than 300 hostages had died, and more may lie buried in the rubble. The massacre was the most ghastly episode in a terrorist spree that has shattered public confidence in the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had built an image as a leader whose uncompromising toughness could bring security to Russians. For more than a decade, the Kremlin has waged a brutal war to prevent the secession of the republic of Chechnya. But it has done little to defuse the lethal determination of Chechen terrorists, who Moscow says have links to Islamic fundamentalist...
...India's tech sector is in the grip of an extraordinary paradox. With almost all tech companies on a hiring spree, there's never been more demand for ?lite employees who have attended the right colleges or have a few years' experience at a prestigious company. Yet for hundreds of thousands of starry-eyed young men and women who are drawn to the IT sector in the hope that it will provide a way out of India's crushing unemployment problem, the promise of a high-paying job is turning out to be a mirage...
...ultimately attracts us. We don't have to be happy about it, but five years after Columbine, it is no longer possible to deny that Americans passionately enjoy pretending to shoot one another with guns, and fears that such a pastime would give rise to a generation of spree killers have not borne fruit. Ignoring the mass appeal of virtual violence seems as pointless as wagging a finger at those darn long-haired rock 'n' rollers...
That's a question that infuriates the luxury-goods manufacturers, the chief victims of what has become a global counterfeit-buying spree. There's nothing new about copying in the fashion business, of course. Product ideas have always trickled down from the high-end runways to the mass market. In the past, designers often took pride in their work being copied. But that was before counterfeiting became a multibillion-dollar, multinational business. Knock-off luxury products--particularly the bogus designer bags coming out of China, where the majority of them originate--have become a mortal threat. "Ten years...
...daily life in the kingdom. In exchange for often hefty paychecks and perks, Westerners provide much of the technical know-how that drives the Saudi economy. But recent events have forced many expats to reconsider the terms of that bargain. Terrorists linked to alQaeda have gone on a killing spree aimed at driving foreign workers out of the kingdom and hastening the Saudi regime's collapse. Militants have killed three Americans in the past month, including Paul Johnson, an engineer and a 20-year veteran of Saudi Arabia who was kidnapped and beheaded. After Johnson's murder, Saudi security forces...