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...veteran Democratic insider Harold M. Ickes, who had helped write those rules, was horrified - and let Penn know it. "How can it possibly be," Ickes asked, "that the much vaunted chief strategist doesn't understand proportional allocation?" And yet the strategy remained the same, with the campaign making its bet on big-state victories. Even now, it can seem as if they don't get it. Both Bill and Hillary have noted plaintively that if Democrats had the same winner-take-all rules as Republicans, she'd be the nominee. Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign now acknowledges privately...
...rating at about 25% - lower than Abe's before he resigned after less than a year in office. "When [Fukuda's] approval breaks below 20%, he's really in deep trouble," says Gerald Curtis, a political-science professor and Japan specialist at Columbia University. "That can happen and I bet he's holding his breath...
...asked Google how much traffic the chrome tulips drove to iGoogle, but a company spokesperson declined to comment, saying only that Google had received "positive feedback" from users. She said that iGoogle currently accounts for 20 percent of visits to Google's home page - a proportion, I bet, that Google would love to reverse. The spokesperson also declined to address any link between iGoogle and OpenSocial, noting only that "we recently launched an iGoogle sandbox to developers, which gives developers the ability to build more interactive gadgets that can incorporate OpenSocial." Indeed, you can find more than 75,000 "gadgets...
...getting back on the fence." Indeed, on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton picked up the endorsement of one important superdelegate: North Carolina Governor Mike Easley, who is backing her despite the fact that much of the rest of the state's political establishment has lined up behind Obama, considered a strong bet to win the state's primary next week. "There's been lots of 'Yes we can, yes we should,'" Easley said in a dig at Obama. "Hillary Clinton is ready to deliver...
...retired factory worker from Beijing and newbie stock buyer, says her investment fund has shrunk by 40%. Li, who receives monthly pension of $171, has lost $8,571 in recent months. "China's stock market is the biggest gamble," she says. And lately, it's been a losing bet...