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Attention, Thomas O. Barnett: I went to Staples to buy a replacement cartridge for my HP printer. Usually I buy a "Staples" brand replacement--they're a little cheaper. But they were no longer on display. Only the pricier HP cartridges were for sale. I asked the store manager if this was because HP had sued Staples. No, she said--HP "paid us more" to carry only their brand. ... If true, isn't this a pretty clear antitrust violation? HP would seem to be trying to enforce a (presumably lucrative) semi-monopoly position in HP replacement cartridges. I don't think semi-monopolists can do that. Or am I misremembering antitrust law? ... Backfill: Business Week has covered this, and finds a prof who says there's no antitrust violation because "there are alternatives being sold at other office superstores, and other printer brands are being sold at Staples." Second opinion, please.
MC poll to be held in 26 wards
Up in arms against the police, the villagers have been camping around the Emergency OPD. Meanwhile, Naresh Kumar today regained consciousness. He recalled that cops had picked him up and took him to a police station. He said the cops had hung him upside-down and tortured him. Naresh was allegedly picked up by Morinda police station staff on the allegations of the selling narcotics. He had been booked under the NDPS Act. Naresh was to be shifted to Juvenile Home in Ludhiana but he was illegally detained in the police station in violation of the rules, claimed LHRI local president T.S Sudan. He was admitted to the Civil Hospital, Morinda, by the police without informing his family members. Naresh was referred to the PGI after doctors in Morinda expressed inability to tackle the case, added Mr Sudan.
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Wife reveals bizarre life of British canoeist
THE British man who faked his death and hid for five years turned himself in because he missed his sons, his wife has claimed. Anne Darwin said her husband John, 57, had staged his disappearance so she could claim on insurance policies and pay off their debts, but living secretly in England and Panama had worn him down and, eventually, he could not bear the separation from his children. She made the claims in an interview with British newspaper The Daily Mail as she prepared to return to England from Panama. She also revealed: DARWIN spent most of his time in hiding in the family home in northeast England. When family or friends came to stay, he would retreat to a bedsit he owned in the adjoining property, reaching it through a secret passage concealed behind a wardrobe.
Beijing concedes 6 Olympic worker deaths
Li Yizhong, minister of the State Administration of Work Safety, said last week he was unaware of work-related deaths on the project but promised to investigate. In Greece four years ago, Olympic protesters in Athens held a memorial service for 13 workers killed during round-the-clock construction for the 2004 Games. The Sunday Times of London reported this month at least 10 workers had died at venues for the Beijing Olympics and said Chinese officials were covering up the accidents. The newspaper said Chinese authorities have covered up the deaths and doled out large payments to guarantee the silence of fellow workers who witnessed the accidents. Ding said that on behalf of the organizers, he wanted to "make it clear that there was no such case that 10 people died on the Bird's Nest." Several minutes later he was asked to clarify his first answer.
Living your bucket list
If you're the kind of person who would list among his or her paramount life goals, "Read a story about one's important life goals," congratulations. You're doing it now. But maybe you're got other things on your mind. You want to play the guitar, or dream of throwing out the first pitch. You yearn to shake the damn truth out of Tom Cruise. These are life's ultimate to-do lists, lists that transcend the clutter on your office desk and give meaning to your existence. One popular Web site, 43Things.com, lets users post their own lists, with items both frank and fanciful, such as: Donate blood. Kiss in the rain. Go to Italy. Continuing with the recently opened film, "The Bucket List," in which two terminally ill old-timers (played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman) set out to achieve their own, such lists have taken on added urgency, one that's all the rage.
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