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...Katonah claimed victory--of a sort. After months of negotiation, Stewart's company withdrew its trademark application in all categories except for four: furniture, pillows, mirrors and chair pads. "I guess that's workable," said Jim Raneri, a co-owner of Charles department store, housed in one of the buildings that made the Move back in 1897. Others in town were more dubious. "I have a hunch, give her an inch, she'll take a mile," said Tom Kiley, a co-owner of the photo shop Katonah Image. Yet for any town that's ever fought a giant, the result...
...necessarily the same thing." Certainly the Moroccan government has been discomfited by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón's decision last Tuesday to investigate several Moroccans, including a few high-ranking officials, for alleged atrocities against the North African Sahawari people between 1976 and 1987 after Spain withdrew from its former colony of Western Sahara. The fact that the Spanish monarch's visit to Melilla on Tuesday coincides with the anniversary of the Green March - the day in 1975 when 350,000 Moroccans poured into Western Sahara to claim the region - only adds to the friction...
...Court, attacks against the painter were rekindled last year when an Indian newsweekly published an advertisement featuring a Husain painting in which a naked representation of mother India draped herself across a map of the country. Husain was promptly charged with "hurting the sentiments of Hindus." In response, he withdrew the painting from auction and now lives in self-imposed exile in Dubai and London...
...Whitfield was dancing at the after- party, when suddenly the crowd withdrew around a group of people fighting...
...downplaying a real danger. Ahmadinejad says that he considers the U.N.'s case against Iran's nuclear program closed, and dismisses U.N. sanctions as "piles of paper." Bragging that Iran's uranium-enrichment efforts have succeeded in achieving "the capacity for industrial-scale fuel cycle production," he also recently withdrew a compromise Iranian proposal that would base its enrichment activities in an international consortium that would allow Western countries to participate in and monitor Iran's activities. "The proposal was based on the situation last year," Ahmadinejad explained. "New terms must be defined...