Thursday, June 22, 2006


Wade, Heat steal Mavs' thunder
Houston Chronicle - 4 hours agoBy JONATHAN FEIGEN. Perhaps everyone outside Miami was wrong about the Dallas Mavericks, about their superiority, about the power of their impressive roll into the NBA Finals and about their 2.9 games worth of dominance of the Heat. ...

Our Mother Jesus . . . a sermon by US church's new head
Times Online - 11 hours agoBy Ruth Gledhill and James Bone. THE Episcopal Church in America descended into chaos last night after leading bishops on both the liberal and conservative wings dissassociated themselves from a last-gasp effort ...

Key Ballmer advisor leaves Microsoft
ZDNet - Jun 20, 2006Martin Taylor, a key advisor to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has left the software maker. Taylor, a 13-year company veteran who led Microsoft's "Get the Facts" anti-Linux crusade for several years, was named ...

Samsung's new Blu-ray DVD player is pretty nifty and pretty ...
USA Today - 7 hours agoOn Sunday, Samsung launches the first stand-alone next-generation DVD player based on Blu-ray high-definition technology. The special discs that work in the unit deliver the same unspoiled widescreen video ...

Saddam's lawyer abducted, killed
Hindu - 12 hours agoDUBAI: The fairness of the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been called into question yet again with the killing of a leading defence lawyer whose body was found in Baghdad on Wednesday. ...

More glamour than Bono
Toronto Star - 4 hours agoIt must be a law of celebrity physics: when journalists act like movie stars, movie stars act like journalists. It is always tempting to dismiss an actor's passionate embrace of charity work as a gimmick: method giving. ...

Nokia Abandons Plan to Develop Cell Phones With Sanyo (Update2)
Bloomberg - 1 hour agoJune 22 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, and Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. abandoned plans to jointly develop mobile phones using the dominant standard in North America, Japan and South Korea. ...

Olmert, Abbas dine in Jordan
Ynetnews - 1 hour agoPrime Minister Ehud Olmert dined in the Jordanian city of Petra Thursday morning with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abduallh. State officials in Jerusalem made it clear that "no diplomatic negotiations are expected. ...

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