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...maintain our lead.'' Baidu has also introduced a question-and-answer service called "Baidu Knows," which is a hit. And the company just won a big legal battle when a popular music-download function it offers was cleared of copyright infringement by a Beijing court. The complaint had been brought against Baidu by major Western music labels...
...using annual summits and a bulging library of how-to videos such as How to Create a Grassroots Movement for Change. "Mostly these are one or two people doing amazing things on their own, who often did not appreciate the full significance of what they were doing, so we brought them all together," says Jason Liebman, co-founder of the AYM and Howcast, which produces the videos. "For most of them this was a first time on an airplane." (Read "A Coming Chill Over Internet Freedom...
...said he believes banks need to start curtailing their riskier activities. In November, speaking to business students at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., Pandit said that unlike with other financial crises, proprietary trading played a much bigger role than underwriting in the recent credit crunch that nearly brought down his firm. "It makes sense to me that you don't take deposits as an institution and turn around and run a hedge fund," he told students...
Despite the apparent progress of the interrogation, the unavailability of HIG has inspired fresh rounds of criticism from national security hawks. "Why wasn't his group brought in once this terrorist was taken into custody?" McConnell declared on the Senate floor. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden wrote in an op-ed last Sunday that while the Administration was still unprepared to question terrorists, interrogations of CIA personnel over Bush-era abuses are "well underway." William Burck, a former deputy counsel to President Bush, says the idea of the HIG is "fabulous" - but it needs to be implemented. The fact that...
...television in Iran tends to be in its own room, away from the dinner table. Families generally sit together to watch shows - veritable home cinemas. (Iranians are notorious film buffs, their love affair with movies stretching back to the birth of cinema itself. The first films were brought to Iran in 1900 by the monarch Mozaffar al-Din Shah, just five years after the Lumière brothers premiered their light machine in Paris.) In order for a film or TV series to truly achieve cult status, it has to be viewable by all members of the household. A great...