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...Considering the record high levels of interest in this year's contest, the network that first declares the new President will find the achievement to be an even sweeter spot on its résumé. At the same time, any projection gaffe - sorry, McCain in fact lost Missouri - will be more difficult to live down. The stakes are high enough to give any seasoned election vet the jitters, and this year's expected high turnout could overwhelm the polling stations and complicate the process even more. "I'm always nervous," says Sheldon Gawiser, director of elections for NBC News...
...mixes are exceptional because they take already wonderful material as their foundation. For this reason, the most memorable mixes are not so much timeless as they defy definition after a single listen. A mixtape is simultaneously a record of the maker’s mood at the time, a sum or product of the totality of their experiences up until creation, and a continually moving barometer of the listener’s musical breadth. Finding the totality of what music has to offer, as with any art, is about discovering connections, following them to their end, and then making more.An...
...charge of the refs: if Joey Crawford misses that goal-tending call at the end of a Lakers game or sends Kobe to the showers early, all of Los Angeles will be calling for his head. The refs need more than a leader with an impressive résumé, and Johnson knows it. "I told the referees that our challenge here is winning the respect and trust of our customers," he says. "I want to perform our way out of this...
...Facebook became the poster child for the social-network generation, LinkedIn has always been the tortoise in this race. I think of it as the anti-social network. Although every savvy white-collar worker in the U.S. has a LinkedIn account - basically just a page that lists résumé and contact info - most users don't really know what it's good for or what one can "do" there...
When out-of-control federal spending runs smack into sluggish tax revenues, red ink splashes all over Washington. In September, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the deficit this year would be $407 billion, a sum that reflected the $168 billion economic stimulus package approved by President Bush in February and the estimated $188billion spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2008. Add to that the $700 billion financial bailout package passed in October, plus another economic stimulus package likely to take shape in the coming months that could cost as much as $175 billion...