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Edelman’s previous research also includes the use of Internet blocking software by the governments of China, Saudi Arabia and countries in the former Soviet Union. This background investigating Internet censorship could help Edelman gain sympathy about his efforts to examine filtering software in the U.S., Hansen said...
Amid that kind of background noise, neither Wall Street nor Main Street is tuning in to Bush right now. For investors big and small, "it's a matter of reconnecting the metric--company to industry to economy--that's missing today," says New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.) chairman Dick Grasso. And that may be beyond Bush's capabilities, as well as the public's expectations. The N.Y.S.E. is hurrying up new regulations to give independent directors more control of the companies in their care. And Grasso is looking past Labor Day for investors to reconnect with fundamentals, especially as third...
Avila lived an unusual life. He moved among the apartments of his mother and sister, which are next to each other, and of his present girlfriend Ruby. He also had a family background packed with violence. His father Rafael, a butcher, was convicted of shooting a neighbor to death. Avila was only 17 at the time. Just a year ago, his brother Juan was found dead in Rosarito, Mexico, with a bullet in the back of his neck...
...talent show last week, the final—and most popular—song was “Take Ya Home” by the supposed fiancé of most of my female students: the rapper Lil BowWow. The chorus, which several female students sang in the background while dancing provocatively, glorifies the rapper, ending: “I mean you run through my mind like all the time to the point that I just wanna take ya home.” I found this song and the fact that several girls were singing it to one of their male...
...every intention of learning the ins-and-outs of British politics. Sure, I expected a fresh perspective on the hot issues back home such as corporate scandal, dirty money in Washington and the pending invasion of Iraq. But I believed that such lessons would take place in the background. After all, I was in another country, and it seemed only fitting to immerse myself in native concerns while I had the chance...