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Much of NBC's early DNA can be found in its current programming. Its Sunday-morning stalwart Meet the Press was originally a radio program when it was founded in 1947. The Today Show was launched on TV in 1952, followed by The Tonight Show in 1954. But by the 1970s, many of NBC's other TV offerings had foundered: local affiliates were defecting to competitors CBS and ABC, which were proving deft at luring away younger audiences. The company was bought - again - by General Electric in 1986; the new owners quickly shed NBC's remaining radio operations in part...
...abortion rights. We urge a Senator Capuano to vote for health-care reform regardless of the amendment—and we ultimately have faith that he will do so. Unlike one of his opponents, Attorney General Martha M. Coakley, he has not ruled it out entirely, saying that the current bill is still miles away from the final version and that many things can change...
...will work, not getting one right now," he told reporters. "If we adopt it in the next two or three weeks or we adopt it in January, we need to make sure it'll work." Either way, the Senate cannot pass a comprehensive bill until next year given the current preoccupation with health care. But some of the provisions, such as unemployment insurance, food stamps and COBRA, must pass before they expire at the end of the year...
...Tajiks and Uzbeks - are also key support bases of Abdullah Abdullah, whom Karzai beat in this year's fraud-ridden election. "The most damaging thing that Iran could do would be to encourage these elements ... to cease supporting the [Karzai] government and essentially open a third front in the current civil war," he says...
...this week), pushed Obama into brokering a deal in which the U.S. effectively condoned yet another armed putsch in the region. In an about-face, Obama recognized last Sunday's presidential election in Honduras, even though almost every other government in the world didn't because they consider the current regime there illegitimate. (The incoming Honduran president will be Porfirio Lobo, a wealthy cattle rancher.) (See a story about Zelaya protesting the Honduran election...