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...Hulu changing TV comedy? -Brooks Dennard, Dallas It's inevitable that eventually we're going to be watching everything on our computers, if we aren't already. For people to be able to access your show in any way is a good thing. You can't fight that progress...
...Wagoner’s classmates, however, called his forced departure a unjustified political sacrifice to appease growing public dissatisfaction with big business. They pointed to GM’s success in expanding global market share and negotiating contracts with the powerful United Auto Workers union as evidence of the progress the former CEO had achieved. The blame, they said, falls largely on the crippling worldwide economic decline that has hobbled GM’s plans to reinvent itself. “He was well on his way to being a folk hero,” said Desmond C. Wong...
...question about how they would work to diminish the city’s achievement gap, both Turk and Young—who is the superintendent of Newton Public School—said they believed holding all students to rigorous standards, regardless of racial and socioeconomic differences, would result in progress in all subgroups...
...Palestinians reacted to Netanyahu's swearing-in with deep pessimism. Senior advisers to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told TIME that after having failed to extract any concessions from former Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert, Abbas expects even less progress from Netanyahu on such key issues as a halt to the construction of illegal Jewish settlements and the removal of more than 550 army checkpoints in the West Bank, which are paralyzing the movement of Palestinians. These sources told TIME that Abbas - who not only confronts a new, hawkish Israeli government but also the loss of the Gaza Strip to Islamic...
...European Union government aid to the country for 2002-2006 totaled $5 billion, with an extra $1 billion earmarked for 2007-2010. Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen told the conference that the challenge now was far more than just killing terrorists, and involved security, governance, social and economic progress, and regional integration. "Afghanistan is not an island," he said. "Its challenges are interlinked with the region through ethnic, religious and political bonds." (See TIME's special report on the G-20 summit...