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...wanted to launch into the dip so that by the time advertising improves, MotorMouths will be sitting pretty," he told me a few days ago. He said he was optimistic, based on recent figures that show auto ads are on the upswing. "If our current growth trends hold and the ad trends hold, MotorMouths could be a $250,000-revenue company within 18 months...
...thought of this recently when I got hold of Nintendo's new DSi ($169.99) handheld video-game player. My feeling of letdown was every bit as acute - perhaps because my anticipation had been unrealistically high. (See the top 10 video games...
...senior co-captain Chris Clayton and sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans—will look to continue their impressive form at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. The co-captain, leading the team with an overall 16-9 record and No. 77 ranking in the nation, believes that hard work holds the key to the Crimson sustaining a competitive Ivy League defense. “We’ve been training pretty hard for this weekend,” Clayton said. “We’ve ran more this week than we did last week. I really think we?...
...wait. Hold the presses. One of those political stunts might actually have merit. “Merit” as in public policy merit, but merit also because it presents a political opportunity for Obama. There’s an idea being circulated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, and even gracing the airwaves of “El Rushbo,” that could be the first truly bipartisan achievement of the Obama era: a payroll-tax holiday. Some proponents suggest a year or two (more like...
...even simply a reduced majority, it will be receiving a lesson learned by revolutionary groups before it. Fatah's loss to Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian elections was a boost for militancy, sure, but also a testament to Hamas's superior social-service delivery. Mugabe's efforts to hold onto power, trying to alter the constitution to allow him everlasting rule, was the spur for the formation of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change...