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5. By dropping its annual sponsorship of a resolution condemning 

China at the UN Human Rights Commission, now meeting in Geneva, 

the US administration acknowledges what has long been obvious.

6. Rather than come up with cash and watch expensive hardware 

depreciate, companies increasingly are turning to leasing and 

outsourcing as alternatives to buying.

7. Crowds gathered at two US Churches where the civil-rights leader 

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, marking the US holiday 

bearing his name.

8. The Angola government has insisted on the withdrawal of the 

latest UN mission, accusing the UN troops of failing to disarm the 

rebels.

9. For high-tech multinationals like H.P., financing has become an 

important way to keep Asian sales kicking, as well as a lucrative business 

believed to total roughly $20 billion a year. It is also becoming a new 

form of muscle in Asia’s tougher market-place.

10. “Not that we in America do everything right or that we provide 

a precise model for the working of a somewhat similar economy, but 

some long-standing American economic interactions do resemble 

those developing on the old Continent,” said a US economics expert.

11. In the EU, a spirit of collective irresponsibility takes hold: rather 

than reforming, or even seriously thinking about the underlying 

policies, each country simply seeks to get as much as it can from the 

trough.

12. Amendments by the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs 

Committee to a draft copyright protection directive would bar all 

private copying and “make illegal such harmless practices as the home 

taping on video of free TV programs for later viewing”.