By Saul Hansell : Why is Microsoft taking it sweet time showing its next move in the battle for Yahoo? I suspect it is simply arranging the forces for its next attack.
Why? Because I don’t think Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer could accept giving up—that would mean Microsoft conceding that it simply could not be […]
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By JAD MOUAWAD
As oil prices soared to record levels in recent years, basic economics suggested that consumption would fall and supplies would rise as producers drilled for more oil.
But as prices flirt with $120 a barrel, many energy experts are becoming worried that neither seems to be happening. Higher prices have done little to suppress […]
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By JEFF ZELENY and ADAM NAGOURNEY
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Senator Barack Obama broke forcefully on Tuesday with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., in an effort to curtail a drama of race, values, patriotism and betrayal that has enveloped his presidential candidacy at a critical juncture. At a news conference here, Mr. Obama […]
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Political Memo : By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain’s recent harsh critique of the Republican-led response to Hurricane Katrina no doubt reminded some of his newfound allies in Congress that his independent image was often honed at his party’s expense.
Mr. McCain, the go-his-own-way Arizona lawmaker, has had an up-and-down relationship with Republican colleagues for […]
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By ANDREW JACOBS
BEIJING — A Chinese court in Tibet sentenced 30 people to prison terms ranging from three years to life on Tuesday for what the authorities said were their roles in the deadly rioting last month, the state news media reported.
The sentences are the first batch of punishments meted out to those accused of […]
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By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Barbed wire and antiaircraft guns ring a maze of buildings in the Iranian desert that lie at the heart of the West’s five-year standoff with Tehran over its program to enrich uranium. It is a place of secrets that Iran loves to boast about, clouding the effort’s real status and making Western […]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin
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