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...PROS: Yahoo just began testing out AdSense, Google's Internet advertising platform, on 3% of its search queries. Since Google is more effective at making money from search than Yahoo, this would boost Yahoo's revenue. That, in turn, would raise Yahoo's stock price and shareholder value...
...replace him, a liberal Democrat named Harris Wofford diagnosed an unease in the electorate about endangered jobs and affordable health care. Hammering at these issues, Wofford came from more than 40 points behind to defeat Bush's formidable friend Richard Thornburgh. A year later, Bill Clinton used the same platform to unseat Bush...
...August's Democratic Convention in Denver, it could become a summer of disarray. Some Democrats worry about what Barack Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe calls a "nightmare scenario," in which both campaigns would haggle with the Democratic National Committee over speakers, delegate rules, the party platform and the critical issue of when to schedule roll-call votes. For a party with a reputation for disorganization, divergent agendas could mean chaos. Instead of being able to script the convention as a four-day coronation of their presidential nominee--the norm in recent elections--Democrats would be putting on a weeklong...
...bridge the gap between urban and rural Poland? It's also a geographical and historical divide. Western Poland tends to support the Civic Platform; eastern Poland supports the PIS. Those borderlines were shaped in the 14th and 15th centuries. To reach across them, the key thing is improving education...
...During the first week, a bunch of campers sat out on the steps of our platform tent...