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...Defense Google couldn't afford to repeat the mistake it made in letting Flickr go to Yahoo! in 2005. When asked about potential acquirers before selling Picnik to Google, Sposato said potential matches ranged from tech giants Apple, Yahoo! and Microsoft to photo companies such as Snapfish, Shutterfly and Kodak. Google had to act decisively to avoid a Flickr-like missed opportunity...
...This sense of higher purpose made Spitzer's downfall all the more crushing, especially to members of his staff, many of whom believed they were practically doing God's work. "My own personal view is he must have gone mad there," says a former senior aide. "We had so many high expectations, and he couldn't live up to them - the public's or his own." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...
Still, the opposition, led by Bishop Harry R. Jackson - who made an unsuccessful last-ditch attempt to get a stay from the Supreme Court until after locals could hold a referendum on gay marriage - shows little acceptance of defeat. And D.C. councilman Marion Barry, who spearheaded the Human Rights Act before gay voters helped him become mayor in 1978, has made grim predictions based on the sentiments of his constituents. "All hell is going to break loose," he told reporters after the council voted in May 2009 to recognize same-sex marriages performed outside the District. "We may have...
...stirred - would not be as radical a maneuver as Republicans claim. Created in 1974, reconciliation has been used 21 times, mostly by Republicans, who employed it to, among other things, pass two sets of George W. Bush's tax cuts. Reconciliation has often been the way that Congress has made major rewrites to health care policy; for instance, the COBRA program that allows people to continue buying their employers' coverage after they leave their jobs gets its name from the acronym for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985. (See the top 10 health care reform...
...movie. There was smoke from fires that were still raging. Street lamps and traffic lights are still not functioning. I would estimate that 40% of windows were broken, and perhaps 10% of buildings suffered seemingly catastrophic damage and were no longer inhabitable. People were sleeping in plazas and had made makeshift tents from shopping carts." (See pictures of Chile's catastrophic earthquake...