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...Baidu's flaws would mean more if Google were sticking around. If it's not, Baidu will have the world's most populous country almost to itself. And that won't be a good thing for anybody. "The lack of a strong second player may unmotivate Baidu to improve" is how JPMorgan's Wei puts it. The company has gone from a Silicon Valley start-up, in a field that didn't then exist in China, to a nimble competitor that was challenged by the global king - and won. The risk that one day it could turn into a hoary...
...Boston or Seattle, carpenters, electricians and plumbers would pack up and go to Las Vegas or Texas or Alaska. "Now there is no work anywhere," says Mark Erlich, whose New England Regional Council of Carpenters represents 22,000 union members in six states. "The largest problem is the continued lack of financing," says Jerry Rhoades, executive secretary treasurer of the Florida Carpenters Regional Council. "In the summer of 2009, there were 800 jobs on the books to build across the state. We do commercial, high-rise residential and power plants. The permits were ready, but the financing dried...
...their core values is dead-on. A post-election survey by Democratic pollster Peter Hart found that Senator Brown was elected primarily because Massachusetts working-class independents didn’t think the Obama administration was doing enough to address their economic concerns. Folks are upset at a lack of both efficacy and backbone. Democrats have to discard the image of a wonkish organization inextricably attached to Wall Street and an inept bureaucracy. Although this may not change the mind of fervent tea partiers in the short run, it’ll help weaken the movement’s influence...
...Council determined how money from the Student Life Fund would be distributed. However, Dean Hammonds has announced a change: University Hall will now take on this responsibility. While we agree with Dean Hammonds that the UC is not the appropriate body for the task, we remain concerned about the lack of student input in the fund’s appropriation. To correct this, the administration should ensure that a student representative is included in the decision-making process. Specifically, a committee should determine the funds’ distribution—emphasizing transparency—with an undergraduate member always...
...next to impossible to find a young person in the capital - be it in the affluent north of the city or the working-class south - who has not seen or at least heard of Lost. In some quarters, not knowing what Lost is, or worse, betraying a lack of interest in the program, invites scorn and ridicule. (See the top 10 episodes of Lost...