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...decade ago, no one had ever heard of a blog. Now, there are 112 million of them, with 50,000 new ones going up every day. Columnist Arianna Huffington, creator of the blog-filled news site The Huffington Post, has done as much to popularize these web diaries as anyone around. She and her editors are betting that some of those millions of enthusiasts would like what is best described as a Blogopedia. In it, the HuffPost's editors and a slew of public figures who post on the site (from Nora Ephron to Harry Shearer to Gary Hart) answer...
...House on Wednesday went down to predictable defeat on the Senate floor by a vote of 52 to 35 (failing to meet the 60-vote threshold to cut off a filibuster). The last time Congress failed to pass a bailout plan that most had assumed was a done deal, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 777 points in one afternoon. The stock market on Friday morning was down only modestly, however, most likely reflecting Wall Street's expectation that Bush will step in. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...need someone else who has also been an advocate for students to continue to build upon what Matt’s done,” he said...
...doing for the Crimson what his brother did for him.“He has grown,” Amaker said. “He knows now it’s not just good enough for him to be a good player. The thing he has done as well as anybody else up to this point is he makes others better. That’s really the mark of a truly special player.”So far this season, Lin has filled up the stat sheet, and is leading not only the team but also the league...
...torturing activists. Moeen himself made troubling statements about the efficacy of democratic rule in a country as turbulent as Bangladesh. But as he has quieted down in recent months, fears that the caretaker government was a dictatorship in civilian clothing have subsided. "The best thing that [the army] has done," says Ali Riaz, chair of the department of politics and government at Illinois State University, "is reduce its visibility." As the two begums ready for their return to the limelight - a prospect few among the military brass would have stomached months ago - observers are confident that the election's results...