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...have more than 900 new friends) - new music from Daisy's playlist, what books Mel is reading, what movies made the top of James's list - whether I've requested it or not. Perhaps the nature of the pure search will evolve this way too. Perhaps Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, is onto something with the alpha release of his new Wikia search engine (currently the 400th most visited engine in the Hitwise directory of search engines in the U.S.), which combines the push of social networks with the pull of information search by allowing users to edit and monitor...
...himself heard, Barnard announced that the rest of the planned progam, including speeches in favor of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, would be scrapped. He asked people who had already voted to leave so that the hordes "standing five-deep" in the street could come in. Bob Worcester, the founder of research company MORI, an active member of Democrats Abroad since he moved to England in 1969, laughed ruefully. "If we were organized, we'd be Republicans," he said...
...Mormons have a long history of progressive politics, dating back to founder Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign which called for the abolition of slavery. Although in more recent decades LDS adherents have acquired a reputation for conservatism, Mormons such as Stewart Udall (Secretary of the Interior) and Esther Peterson (Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau) have served the country in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administrations. In January 2005, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others organized the Mormon Democratic Congressional Caucus in hopes of tapping into this progressive tradition of politics among Mormons...
...Numbers (ISBNs) of texts for Harvard courses, and they say that unlike last semester, the Coop has turned a blind eye to the practice. “We told the Coop we’re not interested in a fight like last semester,” said CrimsonReading co-founder and Undergraduate Council (UC) representative Thomas D. Hadfield ’08 yesterday. “We haven’t been asked to leave yet.” Last September, Coop staff members called the police when a few students copying down ISBNs repeatedly refused to leave the book...
...into half measures, either. Taylor, a founder of England's Football Supporters' Association in the mid-80s, is calling on 100,000 Liverpool fans anywhere to each chip in $10,000 toward the cost of buying back the club and footing the bill for a new stadium. In return, individual fans - limited to a single share in the business - would each vote to elect executives to run the club. It's a model of ownership popular on the continent: Spanish soccer giants Barcelona are among several top-flight teams in the country to be owned by its fans...