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...suggestions that peace and prosperity are at stake in this battle, the reality looks a little different. Bush is likely to win overwhelming bipartisan support for a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, and any true Social Security reform has already been buried under the nasdaq avalanche. Beyond that, it all comes down to the numbers: a 51-49 G.O.P. Senate would put Mississippi Republican Trent Lott in charge of the mood and message once again. That makes Enron hearings less likely and Homeland Security legislation more so. But if all the dead-heat races break...
...Euro-Asia is negotiating a new repayment schedule. Apparently desperate for money, Yang, still Euro-Asia's chairman, has been furiously selling his shares in the company?first in a chunk to two private investors in August, and then on the market in late September?whittling his stake in the company to 49% from...
...Back in the village of Dangram, Seiku Murmu and Monica Besra sit at home and try to live with their legacy from Mother Teresa. Seiku grumbles, "This miracle is a hoax." His honor is at stake, he says, so he has to make it clear where he stands with the facts. "We are not liars." Monica quietly tends to her five children and does not appear to take issue with his use of the first person plural. All she knows is that she has been healed...
...mainly on Web servers. Because Linux technology is in the public domain, it can be easily customized for any device. Sharp is using Trolltech's mobile version of Linux in its Zaurus SL-5500 personal digital assistant. As the mobile browser wars rage on, billions of euros are at stake, and anxious mobile-phone operators are coveting data services, a crucial new source of revenue as voice revenues decline. "These are steps in the right direction toward mobile devices becoming a good window onto the Web," says Ross Bott, a venture capitalist at Silicon Valley-based Redpoint Ventures. Of course...
...both. In Italy, where the movie opened in a record 860 theaters last Friday, audiences got their first glimpse of a film that unites, from a century apart, two prankster icons of Tuscan culture. The country's pride in Benigni's success is immense, but so is its stake in the purity of the Pinocchio story. And Benigni's Pinocchio - directed by and starring the maestro, with the same production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay true to the original story...