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...industry buzz, the busiest day for online shopping, in terms of market-share of site visits, isn't Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) or even Cyber Monday (the following Monday). For the past four years, it's been Thanksgiving Day itself - I need a catchy phrase, like Brown Thursday or perhaps Cyburkey Day - when we rush to our computers to surf the retail sites, perhaps to kill time while the bird is roasting or to start our holiday buying research. Hitwise data reveals that a good portion of Internet traffic on Thanksgiving is research related - many people are searching...
...calls for the general's ouster. This two-pronged attack on Musharraf's political plans came on the same day that he presided over the swearing-in of a caretaker government to run the country until parliamentary elections slated for early January. Pakistan's parliament dissolved at midnight on Thursday, completing its full five-year term for the first time in the country's history. And Musharraf, the general-turned-President who overthrew Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999, claimed credit for restoring democracy in Pakistan. "I take pride in the fact that, being a man in uniform, I have...
...hard time finding any believers. Since he invoked emergency rule two weeks ago, he has suspended the constitution, jailed opposition leaders, muzzled the media and replaced the independent judiciary with a Supreme Court bench of his own choosing. Even Negroponte, who has previously called Musharraf "indispensable," said on Thursday that Pakistan's political process had been derailed and that he was coming to help put it back on track...
...fair and free elections under the emergency; there can be no fair and free elections when the chief of army staff is also President; there can be no fair and free election under the present Election Commission," Bhutto told reporters after being freed from house arrest on Thursday. She and other opposition leaders are considering boycotting the election altogether...
Barry R. Bloom, the veteran dean of the School of Public Health, will step down from the position he has held since 1999 at the end of this academic year, the University announced Thursday night...