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A Mexican press attache was caught on camera placing several BlackBerry devices into his pocket during a press event in New Orleans.
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So you might have seen a couple things floating around on the BlackBerry 9000 lately. One of them is that Fortune recently went ahead and declared an August release for the device.
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Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. met with Susan Glasser about three weeks ago, to address an issue that had been raised before during her year-and-a-half tenure as assistant managing editor for national news—staff morale.
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McCain gives you something to admire and loathe almost every day.
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The real problem the fact that many of the generals work for defense contractors who do business with the Pentagon or have their own Defense Department consultant contracts, which is a plain, flat-out conflict of interest. The real reform necessary here i
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McCain said flatly that he had not been fully briefed on the classified program, which means he does not know the specifics of the techniques now permitted by the CIA and the White House.
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A box seat ticket to a Chicago Cubs game played in midsummer has gone up to $80, and I found myself not ready to pay that sum, drawing another of those wobbly lines in imaginary sand. Last year the same ticket cost $65, which I thought sufficiently outrag
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The Bush administration is planning to tap a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to head a new interagency group that will coordinate the government’s efforts to protect its computer networks from organized cyberattacks.
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Networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook introduce people to new friends and expand their cybercircle of pals. But they’re also introducing people to a sticky etiquette issue that is becoming more common: What if your boss wants to be your buddy?
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In late February, an Internet analytics firm claimed that slightly fewer people were clicking on Google ads.
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When Larry Massa says he likes to travel light, he means it. No need for a jacket and tie at dinner, a pristine set of tennis whites when he hits the court, or even a bathrobe to wear when heading from his hotel room to the pool or the spa.
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American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.
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It is a phone number that just a handful of the governor’s senior aides know. At the end of each day they call in and record briefings, laying out what he needs to know about the following day.
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For President Bush’s big comedy routine at the [WHCA} dinner, he should do only Passover-related jokes.
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Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive and field general, has Napoleonic dreams of global conquest for his 10-month-old wonder gadget, the iPhone. So it may be fitting that he’s encountering his most serious resistance in a city called Waterloo.
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Our goal is for Club members to videotape themselves telling us who they are and why they are a member of the Club. Our hope is that we receive enough videos for us to compile all of them into one, longer video for the public to watch on our website.
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It would be a noble thing for the United States to support Israel’s efforts to stop an Iranian bomb or, if it comes to that, to back Israel’s response to an attack. But no country can rely on the kindness of others.
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You, You, You–you really are special, you are! You’ve got everything going for you. You’re attractive, witty, brilliant. “Gifted” is the word that comes to mind.
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McCain used his wife’s company’s jet. It was perfectly legal for him to do so. But some people the Times reporter talked to think it shouldn’t be legal.Therefore …
links for 2008-04-28
April 28th, 2008 · by Jonathan Rick
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1 Leslie Bradshaw // Apr 29, 2008 at 5:55 am
Jon — you rock, Rick
Thanks for the shout out, link love and email (for Howard, too). Yea, it was pretty awesome to cover it via Utterz and Twitter. I closed my eyes and pictured the WCHD of the future and it looked a lot like what I was doing
LOL. Trying not to take myself too seriously, as well as the event itself.
Great to see you around town this last week. ALl the best, LB.
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