Slide Rules

Reprise time: Summer offers Indy, Batman, Narnia, X-Files (The Pantagraph)

17 May 2008

LOS ANGELES -- Studio executives hope they've trained their audience well as the season of summer blockbusters arrives.

Delphi asks court to force investors to pay $2.6 bln (Washington Post)

17 May 2008

DETROIT (Reuters) - Auto parts supplier Delphi Corp (DPHIQ.PK) on Friday filed a lawsuit against an investor group led by Appaloosa Management L.P in an attempt to win a court order requiring the group to provide $2.55 billion in equity or damages to the bankrupt company.

Thaung Htun: Only war would provoke intervention in Burma (Guardian Unlimited)

17 May 2008

Thaung Htun: Burma's natural disaster will not provoke an intervention. Only a war would suffice