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...Tragedy does not always arrive by boat, of course. That only happened in Message in a Bottle, in which Kevin Costner was sacrificed, despite his considerable star power. Sometimes it's a mudslide (Nights in Rodanthe, the worst of the five) or a secret illness (A Walk to Remember, the sweetest) or class warfare (The Notebook, the sexiest). Either way, the guiding hand of Erich Segal is always present, and the cast must include an Ali MacGraw type, someone famous taking a mortal or psychological hit for the sake of getting our hankies wet. (See who will...
...message eliminated the need to dial a phone number - "You just need to push 'Talk' or 'Call,' " says Willington. Further, Brown's staff banked on the fact that those messages might be forwarded by individuals to others in recipients' electronic address books. "We wanted to continue to reinforce the power of personal contact among friends," he says...
Brown's campaign shows social technologies organizing "the passion and drive and power of an idea," says Ning CEO and co-founder Gina Bianchini...
...Union, he had offered an olive branch to the Republicans - a new commitment to budget balancing (including a bipartisan commission to reduce the deficit that Republicans had been clamoring for), a new emphasis on free trade, a total reversal of his party's traditional positions on nuclear power and offshore drilling. In Baltimore, Obama reminded the Republicans that his $787 billion stimulus package had comprised elements they'd normally support - a $288 billion middle-class tax cut, $275 billion to bail out financially strapped states and an extensive infrastructure plan. "A lot of you," he noted, dryly, "have gone...
...China's long, slow return to great-power status is of historic importance and something that will lead to recalibrations of many diplomatic relationships, including that between Washington and Beijing. But as foolish as it would be to ignore this, it's equally foolish to see too much novelty in headline-grabbing stories that fit neatly within established patterns. Chinese officials have expressed outrage before about meetings between foreign leaders and the Dalai Lama. And the Taiwan arms tale follows an even more familiar script. There's nothing new about a U.S. Administration announcing, as Obama's just did, that...