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...State Department doesn't usually take an interest in the maintenance schedules of dotcom start-ups. But over the weekend, officials there reached out to Twitter and asked them to delay a network upgrade that was scheduled for Monday night. The reason? To protect the interests of Iranians using the service to protest the presidential election that took place on June 12. Twitter moved the upgrade to 2 p.m. P.T. Tuesday afternoon - or 1:30 a.m. Tehran time. (Read "The Iran Election: Twitter's Big Moment...
...first show includes retired quarterback Brett Favre. Many people think Favre may use the appearance to indicate whether he plans to pursue a comeback. That's something I presume you'll ask about. What are you hoping he'll say? I'll tell you this: he had every reason to cancel, and hasn't, which I'm thankful for. I think that says a lot about him. He and I have been texting each other like two kids in college. I'm going to give him every opportunity to say what his plans...
...drift in interest rates, has greatly improved nationwide affordability, the report noted. Indeed, in some famously overpriced regions that have since corrected, such as Los Angeles and the Riverside-San Bernardino areas of California, affordability is as good now as it has been in decades. That's a big reason that many California areas may see prices fall only an additional 10% or so, despite the state's deepening financial crisis. (See "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...
...into regional systems - could create a large enough pool (or pools) of patients to be able to offer lower premiums than those now offered to individuals and small businesses. In addition, a public insurance plan would not have to cover overhead for marketing or profit margins, part of the reason it would have substantially lower administrative costs. (By some estimates, Medicare's administrative costs account for less than 5% of total costs, compared with up to 20% for private insurers...
...smart tactical retreat from his premature endorsement of the results on Friday - the Electoral Commission is supposed to wait three days and hear complaints over any irregularities before presenting the results to Khamenei for certification. (The haste with which the results were declared was a prime reason for many to question their authenticity...