E-Commerce : By BOB TEDESCHI
CHEAP computers and Internet connections have helped people get online in greater numbers in recent years. Now Barry Diller’s IAC/InteractiveCorp wants to make money by helping minority groups connect more easily to specific sites.
IAC last week introduced a new search engine, Rushmore Drive, meant to give the black audience a quick […]
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By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
WASHINGTON — The world’s economic ministers declared on Sunday that shortages and skyrocketing prices for food posed a potentially greater threat to economic and political stability than the turmoil in capital markets.
The ministers, conferring in the shadow of a slumping American economy that threatens to pull down the economies of other countries, […]
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By JOHN M. BRODER
GRANTHAM, Pa. — A candidate forum devoted to issues of faith and justice became another flash point for Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to spar in their intensifying nominating fight, with the candidates exchanging frosty glances Sunday night as their paths briefly crossed on stage.
The Democratic contenders addressed the Compassion […]
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Music Review | ‘Satyagraha’ : By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
This is a fitting time to revisit Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha,” a landmark work of Minimalism. I take Mr. Glass at his word that when “Satyagraha” was introduced, in Rotterdam in 1980, he was following his own voice and vision, not firing a broadside against the complex, cerebral […]
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By BRIAN KNOWLTON
WASHINGTON — A top White House official on Sunday criticized foreign leaders who plan to skip the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing following China’s crackdown in Tibet, calling such actions a “cop-out” far less effective than the “quiet diplomacy” the United States is pursuing.
“The whole issue of opening ceremonies is […]
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