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Semel's previous effort to put video online didn't fare well. In 2003 Yahoo! offered a service called Platinum, with a mix of ABC News, National Geographic and sports from CBS, for $9.95 a month. Consumer interest was so low that Platinum folded before the year was out. This time, Semel is sticking to an advertising-only model, at least for now. "Our primary business is advertising," he notes. "If we have the largest audience in the world, why won't that be a good business...
...resigned. While Tung said he was leaving because the job was wearing him down, China's leaders have clearly telegraphed in recent months their unhappiness with Tung's inability to run Hong Kong to their satisfaction. How will his successor, 60-year-old Chief Secretary Donald Tsang, fare? That's one of the many questions being asked about Hong Kong's new leader. Here are the critical ones, and the answers to them...
After three trips to Europe and visits to Jerusalem, Ramallah and Mexico City, Rice is taking her frequent-flyer diplomacy on a six-nation mission to Asia this week. Even skeptics who wrote off her early forays as standard grip-and-grin fare are beginning to pay attention. ("She's doing quite well because she's saying all those things that she and the President prevented [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell from saying for four years," says Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.) One important move: the U.S. agreeing to a plan forged...
...those three wins came against ECAC bottom dwellers Princeton and Yale, hardly an indication of how Harvard might fare against a more competitive opponent in a pressure situation, as will be the case this evening...
...understand the details of Social Security. "We have to educate our own members and we haven't completely done that," says House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. With a two-week recess sending them back to their districts starting on March 21, House leaders are trying to make sure members fare better than they did a few weeks ago when many endured tough questioning in Social Security town hall meetings. Rather than holding town halls, many Republican members will hold "workshops," where the member is joined by a panel that might include a Social Security caseworker, an expert on retirement planning...