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...said Clinton's proposed commission to investigate the slow governmental response to Hurricane Katrina was "unnecessary" because "we know what caused it"-a veiled reference to white racism and Republican neglect. He said the African Americans in prison were "victims of poverty" and so were the African-American single mothers of children born out of wedlock. And then, just for fun, he added that blacks need to investigate the "ravages of the Democratic Party and see if there's anything worth salvaging...
...around the world, from Helsinki to Pittsburgh to Seoul, to test the feasibility of broadcasting TV programs to mobile phones. Lots of companies would like to see the trials succeed. Handset firms like Nokia stand to sell more - and more expensive - gadgets, after seeing sales of more ordinary phones slow recently; broadcasters could enjoy a spike in viewers and advertising revenue; and mobile operators, at least initially, could boost their turnovers, too. London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media estimates that by 2010 the market for mobile entertainment - which includes TV as well as games and music - will reach $42 billion...
...approach has been slow in coming, but the team hopes that it will lead to a slew of goals during Ivy League play...
...that no one had taken the initiative to spearhead the necessary changes. Michael D. Brown, the embattled former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director, is clearly one such specific individual whose guilt was exposed in the wake of the response. And, most importantly, the federal government’s shockingly slow and disorganized response to a disaster of such enormity is worthy of the strongest public reproof. With enough blame to spread all over, any attempt to spin it solely in one direction is misguided...
...ambitious interior minister who heads the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), yet regularly issues pithy calls for a total "rupture" of the status quo politics of President Jacques Chirac and his current prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and a more radical free-market agenda. Merkel's slow descent into parity with the Social Democrats, says political scientist Dominique Reynie´, is "bad news for Sarkozy. It turns out he's making the same mistake as Merkel: talking about a 'rupture' in a country that is afraid...