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...kind of the Web's home-team favorite--as independent and full of promise as the Internet itself. Firefoxers even tried to set a Guinness World Record for most downloads (8.2 million) in a 24-hour period. Since no one currently holds that title, it's a safe bet that Firefox 3 will claim it. Other reasons for the mad rush: Firefox 3 is stable, meaning it hardly ever crashes. It's fast. You'll see performance differences on sites like Gmail. It's secure. Pop-up alerts tell you when you're visiting sites suspected of pushing virus-laden...
Olmert and his cabinet overrode advice from the chiefs of Mossad and the Shin Bet, Israel's foreign and domestic intelligence agencies, not to release live - and potentially dangerous - prisoners. But Israel has always placed a premium on securing the remains of its soldiers fallen in foreign battles. And calls for a prisoner swap have turned into a charged and emotive public issue in Israel - with general elections just around the corner, few cabinet ministers were willing to go against the popular tide. As Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, who is in favor of a prisoner swap, said today: "We have...
...warring reports coincide with the onset of a presidential election season in which the way forward in Iraq will be a central point of contention. It's a sure bet that G.O.P. presumptive nominee Senator John McCain will wield the Pentagon's 66-page report as a bludgeon against those asserting the war has stalled and that U.S. troops should be withdrawn. Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic contender, will just as certainly use the GAO report as a stiletto to puncture the Administration's - and McCain's - contention that the troop "surge" is bringing victory in Iraq closer...
...have seen this movie before. Once again they face a Republican nominee who supports abortion restrictions yet is widely viewed as moderate and unthreatening to pro-choice voters. Eight years ago, it was George W. Bush who convinced pro-choice Republican and independent women that he was a safe bet, asserting that "America is not ready to ban abortions." This time, according to a poll released last week by NARAL Pro-Choice America, voters have a fuzzy sense of John McCain's views on abortion - which is just the way the McCain campaign wants...
Last summer the bet against Allied finally started to pay off (the company's stock is down 50% over the past year), and Einhorn began shorting Bear and Lehman--the smallest and least diversified of Wall Street's big firms. These companies once made all their money off commissions and fees, but the bulk of their profits in recent years has come from making bets. At Lehman Bros., trading and investing on the firm's own account contributed about 60% of its $6 billion in pretax profits last year. Key to these profits is leverage, a.k.a. debt. But with high...