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Although O’Brien poked fun at the popular microblogging site on The Tonight Show as recently as last June, his bio blurb now reads, “I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.” Posting a photo of himself with a monkey on his back, O’Brien stuck to his usual wacky—and sarcastic—style as he wrote his first tweet: "Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help...
Filling the No. 2, 3, and 4 positions are sophomore Nirasha Guruge and juniors June Tiong and Alisha Mashruwala, respectively...
...Specific reasons for the failure of the deal, first announced last June, were not released. But Chinese regulators had frowned on the purchase for much the same reasons that U.S. consumers shunned the Hummer: the vehicle's size and poor fuel economy were impractical in an era of high fuel prices, general economic weakness and greater concern about the harmful effects of vehicle emissions on the environment. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...series of smaller jobs-related bills. Next up is popular legislation to create a $200 million public-private partnership aimed at increasing tourism in the U.S., which could bring in $4 billion in new revenues and add thousands of jobs. The bill went down in flames last June after Senators from both sides of the aisle sank it with unrelated amendments on the auto bailout and a study on oil prices...
...rare semi-public speech, covered in part by Iran's official television news. Ostensibly, he called for harmony and promoted unity - notions that probably do not sit well with the activist elements of the protest movement that has shaken Iran since the controversial re-election of Ahmadinejad last June. But Rafsanjani also pointed out the divisions within the society and the need to not only acknowledge but compromise on some of those differences - an idea that his conservative compatriots in the theocracy are loath to consider...