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...professor and net neutrality expert. "They are the Obama in this race. They don't have the advantages of the Bell culture, but they aren't trapped by it either." Google could benefit by controlling their own wires, which could potentially mean huge profits down the road and direct access to their customers - a safety net against any wireless carrier whims...
...fitting that the man who sparked the current predicament, Mastella, hails from the region of Campania, home to a wretched public-works emergency - trash has gone uncollected for weeks. And that is not the only reminder that distracted political leadership has direct consequences on people's lives. Another is the fate of a bill crafted by the Ministry of Social Affairs setting badly needed national standards for long-term elderly and disabled care. Raffaele Tangorra, a top technical official in the Ministry, would have expected no opposition to this nonpartisan proposal were it pushed through Parliament, as planned, this spring...
...Poland, which lost about 6 million of its citizens in the war - half of them Jewish - prides itself on being the only country in Nazi-occupied Europe that did not have a collaborator government. But Gross suggests that being a direct witness to Nazi atrocities - Jews from all over Europe were herded to concentration camps in Poland - unleashed a brutal anti-semitism in the country that had for almost nine centuries been home to one of Europe's largest Jewish communities. Gross provides extensive evidence of how many Poles chased away or killed Jewish Holocaust survivors, often out of fear...
...Meanwhile, it's conceivable that John McCain would direct his efforts largely elsewhere, at Arizona, Colorado, North Dakota, West Virginia - as well as all of California. If he prevailed in those four states and won half of California's CDs, he could take home as many as 242 delegates...
...young Yoko Ono, Wong feels an overwhelming impulse to create; she wrote the seven tracks on the ethereal Sometime Next Galaxy - her new, seven-song EP - in a single burst. "Very often, the demo is the final song you hear on the record," she says. "It's direct and honest." But these are demos, one should add, that benefit from the luscious mastering of London-based Mandy Parnell, who has previously worked with Leslie Feist, Sigur Rós and Depeche Mode. And besides, Wong has ambitions that go beyond her computer's minimalist bleeps. She dreams of performing...