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...never lost the ability to win people over. "Before we launched, I just asked all my friends to write," says Huffington. "And then they get such a reaction that they get hooked and start writing a lot." Her special brand of Greco-American wrangling lured so many boldface names that the merely interesting wanted to write for her too. The Huffington Post now has 3,000 bloggers, all - media moguls take note! - unpaid. (Read TIME's 1995 story on Huffington, "A Woman on the Verge...
...plan is intended to relieve banks of their toxic assets - including such securities as subprime mortgage bonds - through purchases by a public-private investment fund, heavily backed by government money. But versions of the plan have faced challenges from the start. Last year, when he was head of the New York Federal Reserve, Geithner said the government might to try by itself to restart sales in these assets using a "reverse auction" where sellers bid down an asset's price to compete for buyers. (Read "Obama's Challenge: Containing the AIG Bonus Outrage...
That plan went nowhere, and in mid-February Geithner announced that the government would design a partnership between private investors and the feds that would kick-start a trading market for the assets. But figuring out what mix of incentives and restraints should be written into the program has proved extremely tricky...
...switch to events that would better suit her condition.Morawski didn’t allow Mills to swim the individual medleys and instead let her swim freestyle or backstroke.At the beginning of the season, Mills continued to combat the effects of her injury, as she was once forced to start a 500-yard freestyle race in the water instead of the on the diving blocks.Even with this setback, Mills dominated the race and broke the five-minute barrier that eludes many full-strength swimmers. She didn’t let her state interfere with her competitive drive to get another...
...about 100 to 16,000. James Fallows of the Atlantic writes that such "selective enforcement" can lead to the most stifling restriction of all - self-censorship: "The idea is that if you're never quite sure when, why and how hard the boom might be lowered on you, you start controlling yourself, rather than being limited strictly by what the government is able to control directly." Not like most Chinese care, though. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 80% of Chinese think the Internet should be managed or controlled, and 85% think the government should be responsible...