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...Such is the confidence of an Internet king. But in the short run, there's little doubt that Google's brazen salvo will turn out to be a splutter - at least in business terms. On March 22, Google began directing Chinese traffic to servers in Hong Kong, where mainland censorship directives do not apply. But the chance for China's Netizens to thereby satiate long pent-up curiosity about the Dalai Lama, or what really happened in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was short-lived. Within hours, mainland censors began blocking access to search results and links...
...This was just the opening salvo. The outspoken O'Leary, who once said that swine flu was only a risk for Asians and Mexicans "living in slums," went on the offensive. In his own statement on March 15, he questioned why, if easyJet values punctuality as its website claims, the airline hasn't published its weekly on-time flight ratings since last April. "Like all spoilt children, [Haji-Ioannou] laps up the attention of being Mr. easyJet, but he can't take the criticism, even when in this case it's valid," he said in his message. Then things...
Since it's an opening salvo in what promises to be a long, hard-fought year, McChrystal knew Operation Moshtarak would influence perceptions, among allies and enemies alike, about how the war would be fought - and how the peace would be waged. Managing those perceptions would be key to victory. "This is not a physical war, in terms of how many people we kill or how much ground you capture, how many bridges you blow up," he told reporters in Istanbul on Feb. 4. "This is all in the minds of the participants. The Afghan people are the most important...
Fidelity fired a salvo two weeks later, when it cut trade commissions to a flat fee of $7.95 from previous rates that ranged from $8 to $19.95 depending on trading volume and asset size. E*Trade, best known for its popular talking baby ads, joined the battle in early February when it trimmed equity-trading fees for low-volume investors to $9.99 from $12.99, although it still maintained a premium deal of $7.99 per trade for higher-volume customers. Scottrade stayed put, as it already offers flat $7 trading fees. (See the top 10 worst corporate name changes...
...thing for partisans and bloggers to disparage a Mass for a dead Senator; it's quite another for a Vatican official to do so. Even some leading conservative Catholics may find they cannot support Burke's latest salvo. When told of the Archbishop's assertion that pro-choice Catholics should not be permitted funeral rites, Princeton professor Robert George was taken aback: "That's a very different, and obviously graver, claim than that with which I would have sympathy. I haven't heard before any bishop say that pro-abortion politicians should not be given a Catholic funeral...