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...Despite a spirited rivalry with fellow broadcasting giant CBS in the golden age of radio, NBC ruled the dial - a supremacy that sparked further antitrust investigations from the newly created Federal Communications Commission. In 1939 the FCC ordered RCA to spin off NBC entirely; RCA, in a successful effort to avoid this outcome, instead sold off the Blue Network in 1943. It would eventually become the American Broadcasting Company (now known...
Harvard announced in June that it would lay off a total of 275 employees from across the University, in an effort to cut labor expenses after a precipitous decline in the value of the endowment...
...Many Americans, and surely most Republicans, may wonder how it is that Congress is crafting a new stimulus plan less than a year after it passed a $787 billion spending package. And it's not as if that effort has been deemed a failure, or even completely used, for that matter. Less than $200 billion of it has been spent thus far, though money continues to go out the door at a steady pace. The Congressional Budget Office credits the bill with increasing U.S. GDP between 1.2% and 3.2% and estimates that it has created or saved between...
...world. We're trying to prevent the collapse of a nuclear state, Pakistan. We're trying to capture and kill the people who massacred our friends and neighbors on Sept. 11, people who represent the purest manifestation of evil in the world. You have to be part of this effort, and no, merely mouthing platitudes in support of the troops is not enough. We all need to sacrifice.(See pictures of the battle in Afghanistan's Kunar province...
...might have asked the public to pay a tax to support the war, as Congressman David Obey has suggested. Or he might have listed some charities that people could contribute to - Greg Mortenson's brilliant effort to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan comes to mind - or he might have asked Americans to send clothing, or seeds, to the second poorest country in the world. This is a message, a resolute and passionate evocation of national purpose, that the Taliban need to hear as well...