Winners and losers this week
Winners Bill Gates: Met with Hu Jintao before Bush did. Almost makes up for the Vista fiasco. Discovery Times: An excellent documentary on the AQ Khan scandal and nuclear terrorism brings out the best in the NYT/Discovery Channel partnership. The Soccer World Cup: Nothing like a renewed Germany-England rivalry, fueled by compromising photos of ...
Winners
Winners
Discovery Times: An excellent documentary on the AQ Khan scandal and nuclear terrorism brings out the best in the NYT/Discovery Channel partnership.
The Soccer World Cup: Nothing like a renewed Germany-England rivalry, fueled by compromising photos of Andrea Merkel.
The Queen of England: Not sure why we care, but she turned 80 this week. That’s big.
Falun Gong: If any publicity is good publicity, this was good week for them.
Losers
Nepal’s King Gyanendra: Can’t get a handle. Needs to get a clue.
Scott McClellan: It was fun while it lasted, I hope.
Darfur: It’s as bad as ever.
Peace in Sri Lanka: The Tamil Tigers don’t want to talk anymore.
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