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...were, she got off pretty easy. For all the hype about Flickr and YouTube and Twitter and whatever else is putting "Web 2.0" in its business plan these days, the most ubiquitous form of user-generated content (to employ a phrase that just won't die) is the humble comment. Web publishers have begun to offer commenting on everything--posts, videos, pictures, whatever--like it was a kind of interactive condiment. Now practically anything on the Web collects comments the way a whale collects barnacles...
News of the discussions between Light and Citigroup, which were confirmed by an official at the Business School, were first reported in The New York Times on Wednesday. Both parties have declined requests for comment, and because nothing has yet been finalized, officials who have spoken to the media have requested anonymity...
...talks on a hard date for withdrawal," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe. There is some basis for this relatively calm assessment out of Washington. Last month, al-Maliki said negotiations over the SOFA had reached a "dead end." His Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, later admitted the comment was little more than a negotiating tactic...
...That comment forced Power, 38, to resign as foreign policy adviser from the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. It was while working for Obama that Power met Sunstein, an old friend and colleague of Obama from their days as faculty members at Chicago...
...officials dismissed the report from Merrill, with the implication that Merrill - itself desperate for cash, having lost billions in the real estate bust - doesn't have the best financial acumen. "We won't comment on market speculation or the Merrill reports specifically," said GM spokeswoman Renee Rashid-Merem. She said GM is not cash short: "We continue to believe the company has sufficient liquidity and financial flexibility to meet its 2008 funding requirements, despite lower U.S. industry volumes." More than 17,000 blue collar workers dropped off GM's payroll last week as part of a buyout of long-term...