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...Video games aren’t completely recession-proof. The North American market almost collapsed due to oversaturation after 1983. But the industry is certainly in a much better position than Hollywood, which faces a unique problem in this recession because it has become far too easy to get access to content for free online. Fewer people will continue to pay for cable when they can watch TV shows online for free, which has become widely available legally. With games, illegal downloading is a non-issue, since most titles are far too complex to stream...
Justice Department •reluctance of to give the Obama transition team access to classified legal opinions that were used by the CIA and the National Security Agency to justify, among other breaches of civil liberties, warrantless spying, indefinite detention and, of course, the use of torture...
United Extras. United passengers can purchase the "Premier Line" privilege for $25 on flights departing from select airports. Pay the fee when you get your boarding pass (use the Premier check-in line) for access to priority screening lanes and the right to board the plane first, to claim that overhead rack space. A few other United offers worth noting: Buy an annual membership to Economy Plus for $349, and you will be automatically upgraded at no extra charge every time you book an economy-class seat on the airline. Economy Plus seats, with five inches of extra legroom, usually...
...appropriate here to remember the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted 60 years ago this week. Using this document as a template, Pakistan and India must ensure their citizens’ rights and access to education, social justice, economic opportunity, and healthcare. The terrorism we see today is not simply a geopolitical struggle. Rather, it is an ideological one. Unless we eradicate the roots of helplessness, disenfranchisement and intolerance, we cannot expect a peaceful and productive future for South Asia. We must join hands, as Americans, Pakistanis, Indians and citizens of the world, to turn this catastrophe into an opportunity...
...luxury we have never been able to afford. Infrastructure decays slowly, and yet roads erode, bridges collapse, and levees fail. Some problems have existed so long that we forget there is any alternative until the Europeans figure it out first: universal health care, lower teenage pregnancy, access to higher education. Some, like the national debt, have become so large that successive administrations have simply passed them on and hoped they explode on someone else’s watch...