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...chatter about Twitter escalated into a virtual roar two weeks ago during the South by Southwest multimedia festival in Austin, Tex., when the barebones service owned by Blogger founder Evan Williams, 34, was named the best blogging tool and attendees used it to meet up at parties. Since then, the fawning attention to the seven-month-old service has come full-circle as reviewers have begun to realize how boring most people's lives really are. (As if YouTube's gallery of puppy and kitten videos hadn't already driven that point home.) Nonetheless, Twitter has been the top term...
...considerable bucks they pour into Presidential politics. But in the end, if state legislators in both parties decide to make the change, it may have little to do with national politics. "It's an incumbent protection act," says Harvey Kronberg, editor of The Quorum Report, a nonpartisan Austin-based political newsletter. "An early February primary means that challengers will have to file in early December and try to get voters' attention during the Christmas holiday. For all practical purposes, challengers will have three weeks to unseat incumbents instead of the eight weeks under law." It should be against...
...behind going into the last round,” Zeckhauser said in an interview on Friday. “We had played 104 hands and just had to wait and see how the other team played.” Finally, Zeckhauser and his partner—Mildred Breed of Austin, Texas—triumphed by a slim margin...
...office Donald Tsang uses at his election-campaign HQ is small and austere-no ornaments, just a desk, a computer and chairs. The atmosphere is distinctly no-nonsense, and that was precisely Tsang's mood when he met TIME's Zoher Abdoolcarim and Austin Ramzy last Friday for a brisk conversation about democracy, his relationship with Beijing, and Hong Kong's competition. Excerpts...
...Harlem) even though men in those 14 areas make up just 17% of the city's total population. Similar patterns can be seen in places like Phoenix--where one community, South Mountain, is home to 1% of Arizona's total population but 6.5% of the state's inmates--and Austin, Texas, where one section has 19% of the city's population but 27% of those on probation...