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...ridiculously inflated stocks. David Hoeft, who covers technology stocks at Dodge & Cox and sits on the domestic-equities committee, recalls a very different experience. "Our job inside the firm got easier," he says. "We trimmed as time went on. We just couldn't rationalize the expectations." No finger pointing. No pressure from the boss. And at the end of the day, no camel either...
...fans rejoice - another middle finger to The Man! - the music industry is reeling. While Planet Earth is due to hit shelves in the U.S. on July 24, Sony BMG announced that with so many free copies floating around, it won't be releasing the album for sale in the U.K. at all. Music retailers boycotted the paper, until HMV reluctantly agreed to stock it, just this once. "We decided we could either get marginalized or we could get right in there," says spokesman Gennaro Castaldo. "With whatever reservations, our motivation was to give our customers the choice and access...
...claim of responsibility for the attack has been made, although Spanish intelligence officials reportedly are pointing the finger at three Sunni jihadist groups, linked to Al-Qaeda, based in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. The military officer said that the operation would have required weeks if not months of planning by a highly skilled team. "Incredibly detailed planning went into this," the officer told TIME on strict condition of anonymity. The bomb was approximately 220 pounds, with the blast directed laterally against the targeted...
...After spending years learning to master Blackberry thumb typing and Palm's Graffiti data entry, some business users may be reluctant to switch over to finger typing on a glass screen. Jobs says it's actually easier to type fast on an iPhone than on a Blackberry, but the test will be whether millions of fingers - fat, flat and stumpy- can navigate the screen as smoothly as veteran techies. If the learning curve proves too steep for early adopters, the early buzz might shift slightly, tempering the enthusiasm of those waiting out the first model's release...
...School's affirmative-action plan in 2003, Michigan voters repudiated it in a referendum. "Any court on which Justice Kennedy is the median voter will never do anything to provoke dramatic backlashes," says Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia School of Law, "because Justice Kennedy has his finger on the pulse of Middle America even more than Justice O'Connor did." In the last week of the term, Kennedy joined 5-4 opinions upholding the power of school principals to discipline students and limiting challenges to public funding of religion. Those aren't likely to provoke a widespread rebellion...