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...jumble of promotional sites and lists that point to other lists. Bing hopes to trump Google in travel with its Farecast technology, designed to locate the cheapest flights and hotels on the basis of recent trends. Farecast charts the peaks and valleys of airfares and room rates for a particular itinerary over the course of several months and predicts prices for the near future. Users can then decide whether to buy now or wait for prices to fall. (A study by an independent auditing company found that Farecast's predictions were 74.5% accurate and that travelers purchasing two plane tickets...
Kristol, Bill • Obama is called "arrogant" by, which is hilarious because, you know, there are those who'd say his predecessor was the walking - scratch that, strutting - embodiment of that particular adjective...
...midst of a recession, Corzine, a former Goldman Sachs CEO, would seem to have a natural advantage over Christie, who boasts no policy experience and in fact seems to delight in telling crowds, "I will never be the smartest man in the room." But with Wall Street (and in particular Goldman Sachs) being blamed for much of the financial crisis, Corzine's professional background has turned into a major liability. His unpopular moves of late - he's raised taxes and cut services, and New Jersey still faces massive budget deficits - have only made things worse, and even before last week...
...state in America, and we have the highest unemployment in the region," Christie told TIME in an interview. "If there's some people who decide to pull my lever in the booth because they don't like Jon Corzine, I'll take their votes too. I'm not particular in that regard...
...particular, the gang of security chiefs, or the "New Right" - including just-ousted Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei, commander of the Basij paramilitary Hasan Taeb, and head of the Revolutionary Guards Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari - may seek to further militarize the already repressive regime. One fundamentalist group linked to the Basij paramilitary force has gone public with plans to wrestle power from Ahmadinejad by advancing its own "desired Cabinet lineup." The spokesman, Lotfali Bakhtiari, said in an interview published in the newspaper Khabar, "Our organization intends to become the government's think tank. We want to introduce...