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...PROS: The combined entities are worth more together than they are apart, which is a plus for investors. Together, they would have the most instant messenger users, the buzziest celebrity news site (AOL's TMZ.com), a leading business site (Yahoo Finance), along with a popular tech blog, (AOL's Engadget). The cash infusion from Time Warner (in exchange for a 20% stake in Yahoo/AOL), would enable Yahoo to buy back some of its stock, which would likely elevate its stock price. "The chief benefit to Yahoo is the avoidance of a Microsoft deal," notes analyst Greg Sterling...
...they were generally unimpressed with the new feature. “I don’t like it, but I’m not a big fan of chatting,” Alexandra M. Wilcox ’11 said. “Google ripped off AIM [America Online Instant Messenger] anyway.” Other students said they agreed that Facebook was not directly copying Gmail. “It’s not ripping off Google,” said Alex B. Lipton ’11. Facebook declined to comment about the new chat feature and Google...
Among Broadway?s musical classics, South Pacific has long had a special mystique. An instant critical and popular smash when it opened in April 1949, it swept the Tony awards, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and ran for a then-extraordinary five years. For a generation of postwar theatergoers, it was cherished like almost no other American musical. In my own parents? rather sparse record collection, it was the one original cast album that got played over and over - the Broadway show music that provided the soundtrack of my childhood...
...detriment. People remember him from the blur of conferences and meetings. In international field work, not being white can make it easier to gain the trust of local populations - Sanjayan recalls an early field trip to an African nation in the wake of apartheid, when being white meant earning instant suspicion. But he admits to being troubled that at a time when the U.S. may finally be ready to elect an African-American to the Presidency, the country's major environmental groups have yet to be led by a non-white. "It's pretty surprising, and at the same time...
Long before the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright became instant hits on YouTube and talk-show fodder for the cable news channels, Barack Obama knew he had a preacher problem. On the eve of launching his campaign for the White House in February 2007, Obama abruptly withdrew an invitation to Wright to deliver the invocation at his announcement speech in Springfield, Ill. Wright had been Obama's pastor for nearly 20 years. He had brought Obama into the church, helped him find his faith in God, officiated at Obama's wedding and baptized both his children. But Wright...