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...video, put together by Geico employees, shows workers breaking into song from their cubicles. The power ballad begins with a single employee singing "Jump online or call a rep / We'll guide you through it step-by-step / Twenty-four-seven we'll be there for you." Then a chorus of employees chime in, complete with guitars, drums and a cowbell. Someone dressed as the company's mascot gecko does his best Slash imitation on guitar. (See pictures of a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting...
...Chinese media was reporting April 10 as the last day). Google employees can't say so publicly, of course - and some of the 700-plus employees who work at the company's Beijing headquarters will no doubt retain their jobs - but to say that others are fatalistic is to put it mildly. "What can we do?" says a computer scientist who has worked at Google China for more than two years. "If the search business in China is shut down, it's shut down. If I have to find another job when it happens...
...contrary). Random searches on all three platforms on March 17 for "Tiananmen Square, 1989," and "Falun Gong" - two hot buttons as far as Beijing is concerned - prompted the usual government-approved pabulum on the subjects. If Microsoft and the others intend to be in China "to stay," as Mundie put it, there is no chance - none - that the censorship issue will change for them going forward...
...Thursday's meeting in Doha, though, delegates from Libya quickly put a stop to that momentum. "Let's just say they were very impassioned," says Glenn Sant, global marine program leader for Traffic, a U.K.-based organization that monitors international trade in wildlife. "We had expected the proposal to go to a working group for extended debate, but Libya called for a vote immediately...
...hard line against Kurdish claims to the city. Since Maliki - whose current government was installed with Kurdish support, but dragged its feet on Kurdish claims to Kirkuk - now has fewer possible partners to form a government, he may find himself more dependent on them than ever. And that would put him under greater pressure to deliver them Kirkuk, despite the risk of spurring further conflict...