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...continue to use search engines, of course, to seek important information, but over the last several months I've noticed that more and more information is also being pushed at me by my new friends (since shamelessly soliciting Facebook friendships in a previous column, I now have more than 900 new friends) - new music from Daisy's playlist, what books Mel is reading, what movies made the top of James's list - whether I've requested it or not. Perhaps the nature of the pure search will evolve this way too. Perhaps Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, is onto something...
...King, Jr. “He doesn’t seek to perfect the politics of swift-boating,” Kerry said, referring to attacks on his own failed 2004 presidential bid. “He seeks to end it.” Patrick asked voters assembled to push their friends and relatives to go to the polls today. “Make it personal,” he said. “Now is not the time to let up.” Kennedy, who asked Massachusetts voters to anoint Obama heir to the Kennedy legacy, twice began...
...longtime ally of France (and lately, also of the U.S.), left office and cleared the way for their takeover. "You take power through elections, not otherwise," Sarkozy warned, indicating that the 1,400 French troops stationed in Chad could step off the sidelines if the rebels push their luck. The United Nations Security Council has urged all member states to back President Déby's government in the face of the rebel onslaught. "If Chad has been the victim of an aggression," Sarkozy added, "France would have - that's conditional - the means to oppose that action... Everyone had better...
...initial hours and days of the rebel push into N'Djamena, Paris remained in close phone contact with Déby - at one point offering him asylum in France. But French public statements about the conflict were confined to assurances that French troops in Chad were involved only in protecting foreign civilians and evacuating expatriates, and that bilateral security accords between the two countries did not require France to intervene to save an embattled regime...
...Morin did over the weekend, French officials are describing the timing of Thursday's rebel push from Sudan as designed to disrupt impending deployment of the European Union's 3,700 EUFOR peacekeeping force along Chad's eastern border. Those troops are charged with establishing safe zones to protect refugees from violence-torn Darfur. That imposition of well-armed foreign soldiers, French officials say, would have complicated Khartoum's plans to destabilizing the Chadian regime...