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...MySpace and Facebook, the Coke and Pepsi of the social-networking world, are going after each other tooth and nail. That's why MySpace unveiled an innovative music service a few weeks ago that gives users free access to a library of millions of songs. It's also why it's launching its sweeping new advertising play today...
...With a month left, McCain still has time to reverse the recent trend and make election night a nail biter. It was only a few weeks ago, after all, that it was McCain who had soared in national polls and Obama who was dealing with panic in his party. But McCain's campaign is now stuck playing defense. Over the weekend, his running mate, Sarah Palin, held a rally in Nebraska, a traditionally safe Republican state, but one where electoral votes are distributed by congressional district; Obama hopes to steal one such vote in the more liberal Omaha area...
...fight she did. The senior slowly clawed her way back into the set. It eventually came down to a nail-biter of a tiebreak, in which she was once again down...
...deposits insured by the FDIC, from $100,000 to $250,000. But several influential conservative Republicans who oppposed the first bill, like John Shaddeg of Arizona and Zach Wamp of Tennessee, have signaled that they will reluctantly support the new Senate version. Still, the vote promises to be a nail-biter, and by Thursday evening, the White House and Congressional leaders were still not convinced that they had secured the additional 12 votes to guarantee passage. With the outcome still uncertain, the business community has launched a full-court press of every member of Congress, reminding fence sitters like...
...Hajj penned thousands more words during years as Prisoner 345 -including accounts of being force-fed through a tube during months of a hunger strike; of being locked in a cage for two weeks with no toothbrush or soap, after guards found an iron nail outside his cell window; and of being placed in a single cell with no blanket or bed, after refusing to submit to vaccinations he had already received in Qatar. Asked to comment on these claims, U.S. Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon on Wednesday told TIME that Al-Hajj had "routinely made baseless assertions that...