tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56048842012-02-01T02:00:02.369-05:00Tracing the daily steps in the net from MassachussettsBala Subranoreply@blogger.comBlogger64321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-55779853753309158392008-10-07T06:23:00.000-04:002008-10-07T06:23:41.490-04:00

Columns: 'Speculations' by Jim Holt | Prospect Magazine October 2008 issue 151: "Heard the one about the three theories of humour? Jokes are about humiliation, the release of inhibitions, or absurdity. The end of the world itself has the logical form of a joke. Geddit?"

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Boss of Lehman Brothers left squirming as veteran Democrat roasts him over pay | Business | The Guardian: "'Your company is bankrupt, you keep $480m. Is that fair?'"

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Al Gore is a fraud?: We know Al Gore is a Hypocrite.

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Robert E. Hall & Charles I. JonesHoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University and NBER and Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley and NBERApril 7, 2006 — Version 5.0Quarterly Journal of Economics

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Making Health Care the Engine That Drives the Economy - New York Times

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On the Issues: Health Care - Election Guide 2008 - The New York Times

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OECD Health Data 2008 - Frequently Requested Data

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Economist's View: Large Collection of Economic and Healthcare Graphs from April Blog Entries

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With Palin, McCain changes the equation - Los Angeles Times: "In her rollout speech, Palin did not take on the traditional role of a vice presidential candidate, that of a political attack dog. Neither she nor McCain directly criticized or even mentioned Obama and Joe Biden, the Democratic ticket.Obama and Biden both phoned Palin during the day, campaign officials said, and issued statements

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Choice of Sarah Palin energizes California delegates - Los Angeles Times: "Several delegates cited Palin's decision to have a baby, 4-month-old Trig, knowing he had Down syndrome."

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A winning strategy for McCain - The Boston Globe: "Run on reform. He should base his candidacy on a platform of compelling solutions.Fire lobbyists from the campaign. McCain should make clear that he will not be indebted to any lobbyists - including those who are campaign "volunteers.""Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, former

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Rebranding Michelle Obama - The Boston Globe: "She has been called 'Obama's baby mama,' slang for an unwed mother. She has faced allegations that she used the slur 'whitey' in a speech. And the much discussed fist-bump that she shared with her husband earlier this month has been absurdly dissected: Could it be a terrorist gesture?"

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The real power of campaign donations - The Boston Globe: "The candidate who raises the most money wins most of the time. The majority of campaign money comes from a tiny fraction of the public, representing moneyed interests and the wealthy. Campaign contributors, quite logically, support with their votes and donations those candidates who share their views."

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Obama's risky electoral strategy - The Boston Globe: "Obama is certainly not conceding historically Democratic states where George Bush made significant gains in 2004, but he is signaling a preference to fight in places where the GOP showed signs of slippage in the last election."

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Obama and McCain - flip-flop, flip-flop - The Boston Globe: THERE IS no "straight talk." There isn't "a different kind of politics." There are just two men who really want to be president.

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Harold Pollack: Being the Change we Want to See: Let's Not Trash Cindy McCain Over Her Past Drug Problems - Politics on The Huffington Post: "Cindy McCain's had painful back and knee problems her doctors did not effectively address. To deal with the resulting pain, she started using--then misusing--Percocet and Vicodin. Like many others, she became dependent. She stole some medication, obtained

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Cindy McCain feels the heat after 'cheating' with recipe - Americas, World - The Independent: "Unfortunately the recipe Mrs McCain submitted is a near facsimile of a recipe from Hershey's, America's largest confectioner. The scandal, has not yet risen to 'cookiegate' dimensions, but the omens are not good. It's the second time this year that Mrs McCain has been caught with her hand, figuratively,

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Eugene Robinson - Race in the Sunlight - washingtonpost.com: "Race is already an issue, even if it is largely confined to the shadow world of implication and coded language. Obama is now dragging the race issue into the sunlight -- a move that has to be considered both risky and inevitable."

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The Trouble With Markets for Carbon - NYTimes.com: As the United States moves toward taking action on global warming, practical experience with carbon markets in the European Union raises the question if such systems ever work.Bush said carbon controls would put an undue burden on the American economy unless fast-growing countries like China and India also made commitments to cut emissions.

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India registers 10,000 mobile phone sales every hour: "India's mobile handset shipments have registered a year-on-year growth of about 29 per cent, shipping close to 85 million handsets between April 2007 and March 2008, as against 66 million units shipped in the corresponding period last fiscal.Significantly, during the last quarter of 2007–08, India's mobile handset shipments touched 22.3

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The only 7 investments you need - A blue-chip U.S.-stock fund (1) - CNNMoney.com: "It's a tough market, but don't think that means you need more weapons for your portfolio. Now more than ever, don't complicate your strategy. Simplify it."

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“Oops” Pregnancies in High Places | Worldwatch InstituteWomen from all walks of life experience unplanned pregnancies—including Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Even in the wealthy United States, 49 percent of conceptions are accidental. In industrialized and developing nations alike, women around the globe struggle with the three elements of successful

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Former press secretary's book bashes Bush - Yahoo! News: "Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that President Bush relied on an aggressive 'political propaganda campaign' instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war, it has been reported."

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How the Congress is losing more than elections: "The party's understanding of the power of television goes back to the 1982 Asian Games, when the Indira Gandhi [Images] government rolled out an LPT (low power transmitter) a day under the dark gaze of H K L Bhagat, so that Rajivbaba's showpiece event, his organisational arangetram, could reach every corner of the country-- live and in full

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The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : The signals from Karnataka for Sonia Gandhi: "Preference for status quo, unwillingness to crack the whip, and a fear of the old guard have combined to reduce the Congress to a losing proposition."Two elements constitute this style: a conservative impulse and a timid approach to men and matters. This gets translated into (1) a failure to spell out definite

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» Over 1,000 detonators found off Tamil Nadu coast - Thaindian News: "The police Saturday seized gunny bags containing more than 1,000 detonators in a village near Rameswaram town in Tamil Nadu. The abandoned bags were spotted by locals in Ucchipuli village, about 650 km south of Chennai.The police said as many as 1,152 detonators were found in the dumped bags and investigations are on."

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TamilNet: 23.05.08 Reserved hero: Brigadier Balraj: "In over two decades of service with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Brig. Balraj, who passed away Tuesday after a heart attack, had been a courageous and skilled fighter and commander whose last years were spent institutionalizing the training of a new generation of LTTE field officers. Although he joined the LTTE later than many

Bala Subranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-35772842458507810192008-05-25T09:07:00.000-04:002008-05-25T09:07:04.779-04:00

TamilNet: 24.05.08 Shifts in world order alters dynamics of Sri Lanka’s conflict - paper: "Whether Sri Lanka is or isn’t on the UN Human Rights Council is an irrelevancy as far as international dimensions of the island’s conflict are concerned, the Tamil Guardian newspaper argued this week. “Rather than a ‘universal’ principle, the concept of ‘human rights’ has, in actuality, served mainly as a

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Bob Cesca: Worst Person In The World - Politics on The Huffington Post

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Clinton regrets RFK assassination remark - Yahoo! News: "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton quickly apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds."

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Diplomacy | Speaking to the enemy | Economist.com: "Sometimes it makes sense; sometimes it doesn't; sometimes not talking can be appeasement"

Bala Subranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-2564860536280914292008-05-22T16:37:00.000-04:002008-05-22T16:37:11.835-04:00

Lexington | Indiana McCain rides again | Economist.com: "The Republican cannot dismiss the question of his age with a few jokes"

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South Africa and immigration | Give them a better life | Economist.com: "Xenophobic violence against black foreigners in Johannesburg's townships has prompted calls for a new government policy on immigration"

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Irena Sendler | Economist.com: "Irena Sendler, saviour of children in the Warsaw ghetto, died on May 12th, aged 98"

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AFP: India's Essar keeps mum on Severstal counter-bid for Esmark: "ndia's Essar Steel kept quiet Wednesday on a counter-bid by Russian steel giant OAO Severstal for US steelmaker Esmark Inc that could set the stage for a bidding war."

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Officials say Obama starts search for running mate - Yahoo! News: "Democratic officials said Thursday the party's likely nominee has asked former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson to begin vetting potential vice presidential picks. Johnson did the same job for Democratic nominees John Kerry in 2004 and Walter Mondale in 1984.Obama's campaign refused to talk about who was being considered, but possible

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Obama seeks delegate majority in Ore., Ky. primaries - Yahoo! News: "_Obama was 17 delegates short of reaching a majority of the 3,253 pledged delegates available in all state contests._Oregon offered 52 delegates; Kentucky had 51._Counting aligned superdelegates as well, Obama had a total of 1,915 and Clinton had 1,721, according to the latest Associated Press count. That placed Obama just more

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The Public Elites | Print Article | Newsweek.com: "NEWSWEEK's Challenge Index is designed to recognize schools that challenge average students, and not magnet or charter schools that draw only the best students in their areas. These top performers, listed below in alphabetical order, were excluded from the list of top high schools because, despite their exceptional quality, their sky-high SAT

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Nizam Rights | Dasavatharam | Siri Media | Dasari Narayan Rao | Rajinikanths Shivaji: "now set for release on June 6"

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New Clinton Ads for Oregon, Kentucky - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog: By ARIEL ALEXOVICHHillary Rodham Clinton's campaign marches forward with new ads in Kentucky and Oregon.

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TamilNet: 16.05.08 'India gives full blessings to eliminate LTTE,' says SL Prime Minister: "Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka, in a special interview to Thinakkural, a Colombo based Tamil daily, on Friday, claimed that the Indian government had given 'full blessings' to the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa to 'eliminate the LTTE.' Mr. Wickramanayaka further proclaimed that there

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Florida, Michigan delegates cannot save Clinton - Yahoo! News: "The Democratic Party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, a 30-member panel charged with interpreting and enforcing party rules, is scheduled to meet May 31 to consider how to handle Michigan and Florida's 366 delegates.Last year, the panel imposed the harshest punishment it could render against the two states after they scheduled primaries

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Indian bombs | Blood in the Pink City | Economist.com: "Terrorists strike one of India's tourist capitals"

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Mildred Loving | Economist.com: "Mildred Loving, law-changer, died on May 2nd, aged 68"

Bala Subranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-55446935674084962752008-05-15T17:38:00.002-04:002008-05-15T17:38:56.018-04:00

Global warming | A lot of hot air | Economist.com: "Books about climate change are often flawed—some more so than others"

Bala Subranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-71621378340863419512008-05-15T17:38:00.001-04:002008-05-15T17:38:25.761-04:00

Pharmaceuticals | Quagmire to goldmine? | Economist.com: "The rapid growth in developing countries prompts a rethink by drugs companies"

Bala Subranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-16664587267267139382008-05-15T17:38:00.000-04:002008-05-15T17:38:22.707-04:00

Lexington | Why not both? | Economist.com: "The dubious case for a Democratic dream team"

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Drug violence in Mexico | Can the army out-gun the drug lords? | Economist.com: "Four top police officers, and more than a hundred people, are killed over the course of a single week in drug-related shootingsAP"

Bala Subranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-78793283835995282472008-05-15T17:37:00.001-04:002008-05-15T17:37:28.943-04:00

Lebanon | Iran's tool fights America's stooge | Economist.com: "A delicate balance between Christians, Druze, Sunnis and Shias has broken down. Reassembly will be hard"

Bala Subranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-28959450365284726632008-05-15T17:37:00.000-04:002008-05-15T17:37:21.704-04:00

Travel and tourism | A new itinerary | Economist.com: "Both as destinations and as new sources of tourists, emerging economies are transforming the travel industry"

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Disasters in China and Myanmar | No time to sit back | Economist.com: "China has shown up Myanmar's generals. But it is not too late for outsiders to help the Burmese"

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ABC News: Warning Signs for Obama in Big W. Va. Loss: "W.Va. May Just Be a Speed Bump for Obama, But Warning Signs are for Real"Trailhead : Hard-Working White American Endorses Obama: "Edwards is still influential. Just look at the 7 percent of the vote he picked up in West Virginia—impressive for someone who dropped out more than three months ago. If Edwards supporters in Kentucky take his cue

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McCain's wife sells Sudan-related investments - Yahoo! News: "Cindy McCain, whose husband has been a critic of the violence in Sudan, sold off more than $2 million in mutual funds whose holdings include companies that do business in the African nation.Last year, in a speech on energy policy to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, McCain cited China's investments in

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Edwards backs Obama - Yahoo! News: "Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a move designed to help solidify support for the party's likely presidential nominee even as Hillary Rodham Clinton refuses to give up her long-shot candidacy."

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Clinton presses ahead in longshot campaign - Yahoo! News: "An embattled Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging the party leaders who are key to the Democratic presidential race to take a hard look at her West Virginia win and slow their march to Barack Obama."

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A Usually Legal Practice That Wears Black Eyes - New York Times: By MIKE McINTIRE and MICHAEL LUONeeding help in Texas, the Clinton campaign paid locals to round up votes, a legal but controversial tool known as “street money.”

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Harvard Business Online's John Quelch: "Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes For Better Democracy by John Quelch and Katherine Jocz (Harvard Business Press 2008).""Fear appeal" ads, such as the 3am phone call, designed to worry voters about Obama’s lack of experience.Guilt-by-association ads that include footage of Pastor Wright.The roll-your-own ads that exploit gaffes or contradictions using

Bala Subranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-79034913884323511132008-05-13T15:26:00.000-04:002008-05-13T15:26:25.304-04:00

TamilNet: 13.05.08 Maheswari Velautham shot dead in Jaffna: "Maheswari Velautham, an advisor of EPDP leader Douglas Devandanda, was shot and killed at her residence at Navi'ndil near Nelliyadi in Vadamaraadchi in Jaffna Tuesday around 6:30 p.m., initial reports from Jaffna said. Ms. Maheswari, whose association with Tamil militancy dates back to late 1970s, narrowly escaped from a group of Tamil

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Furtive Venice snapper arrested: "A man who allegedly photographed more than 3,000 women's bottoms as they toured Venice has been arrested."

Bala Subranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604884.post-78957810847583941952008-05-12T17:02:00.000-04:002008-05-12T17:02:46.218-04:00

Election Guide 2008 - Presidential Election - Politics - Electoral Map - The New York Times: "Here are what the Obama and McCain campaigns now consider the true battleground states going into the fall campaign, assuming — as both candidates now do — that Barack Obama is likely to win his party's nomination. In addition to these states, both sides have states that they say (or rather hope) will

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The Upside of Being Knocked Around - Barack Obama - New York Times: By MARK LEIBOVICHMaybe a hard-hitting Hillary Rodham Clinton has been the best thing that could have happened to Barack Obama.

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Doug Goodyear resigns as Republican National Convention coordinator - Los Angeles Times: "He was chosen by John McCain for the job. A few hours before he quit, Newsweek posted a report saying his lobbying firm had represented the military regime in Myanmar."

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A McCain Digs In - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog: "Cindy McCain, the wife of Senator John McCain, said in an interview televised Thursday that she would never release her tax returns, even if her husband was elected president and she became the first lady."

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Clintons Endgame Strategy? - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent comments about electability might be part of an elaborate bargaining package.

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McCain’s Vote in 2000 Is Revived in a Ruckus; Huffington, Whitford and Schiff Offer Accounts - New York Times: Two “West Wing” actors are backing up Arianna Huffington’s account of a Los Angeles dinner party, where she says she heard John McCain say that he had not voted for George W. Bush in 2000.

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Presidential politics | The big remaining question | Economist.com: "He is closer to the Democratic nomination. But how will Barack Obama's colour affect his chances in November?"

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Black America | Nearer to overcoming | Economist.com: "Barack Obama's success shows that the ceiling has risen for African-Americans. But many are still too close to the floor"

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The Palestinians | The wandering Palestinian | Economist.com: "Whether they be in Nahr al-Bared (shown below), Nazareth or Nablus, Palestinians are united by loss and by hope"

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Peru | Poverty amid progress | Economist.com: "A revolution in South America's fastest-growing economy is not reaching everyone"

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American housing | Map of misery | Economist.com: "America may well be only halfway through the house-price bust"

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Animal behaviour | Naughty nesters | Economist.com: "How cuckoos trick their way into another bird's nest"

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Russia's oil industry | Trouble in the pipeline | Economist.com: "Despite booming demand and record prices, Russia's oil industry faces problems"

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The Five Mistakes Clinton Made -- Printout -- TIME

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Clinton: The post-mortems? - First Read - msnbc.com

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Clinton Touts White Support - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog

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Anti Syrian Labor unions boycotting pro-Syrian Union strike | Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from Beirut: "The minimum wage was increased in a cabinet meeting on Tuesday from 300000 LL ( $200) to 500,000 LL( $333) a 67 % increase , the highest wage increase ever in Lebanon, which the unions are labeling as modestThe GFLU has demanded increasing the minimum wage from 300000 LL ( $200) to LL 960,000

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Washington diary: Miracle needed: "Wait for her reincarnation as Senate majority leader, Governor of New York, future presidential candidate or even, as some have suggested, Vice-President."

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Clinton’s Options Seem to Dwindle - New York Times: "“We’re going to argue that it’s going to take 2,209 to get to the magic number,” said Howard Wolfson, one of Mrs. Clinton’s chief strategists. “We’re going to argue that Florida and Michigan need to be seated full-strength.”The other big hope for the Clinton campaign is making the argument that Mr. Obama would suffer against Senator John McCain

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Pundits Declare the Race Over - New York Times: "Very early this morning, after many voters had already gone to sleep, the conventional wisdom of the elite political pundit class that resides on television shifted hard, and possibly irretrievably, against Senator Hillary Clinton’s continued viability as a presidential candidate."

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In Belfast, fences are still best neighbors - The Boston Globe: "Peace walls are growing in size, number"

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How Americans View Hillary: Popular but Polarizing - TIME

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Feeding Haiti - The Boston Globe: ONCE AGAIN the media are filled with stories and images of unrest in Haiti, this time due to soaring food prices and pervasive hunger. In the United States and around the world, grain stocks have been depleted, energy costs have skyrocketed, and prices of food staples are inflated by increased use of grain to feed livestock in middle-income countries and ... (By

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Nihilism at $60 a pop - The Boston Globe: WE LIVE in an amoral and violent world: human trafficking, gang warfare, beheadings, rape - oh wait, that's just the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

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A better way to elect a president - The Boston Globe: IF THERE'S one constitutional idea whose time has come and gone, it's the Electoral College. (By Scot Lehigh)

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Obama wins N.C. primary, Clinton leads in Indiana - Yahoo! News: "Obama was gaining more than 90 percent of the black vote in Indiana, while Clinton was winning an estimated 61 percent of the white vote there, running ahead of her rival among white men as well as women.She also had 51 percent of independents' votes, to 49 for her rival, a statistical tie, and was winning among Democrats, 53-47.In

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What to Watch For: Indiana, North Carolina Edition - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog: This is the biggest primary night left in our long series. But it does not have the feel of a season finale.

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For Primaries in 2 States, a Variety of Scenarios - New York Times: For political, demographic and mathematical reasons, Tuesday’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana could reshape the race.

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No Endgame: Comment: The New Yorker: Hillary Clinton’s once commanding lead among superdelegates has shrunk by three-quarters. At various points, her campaign has been on the verge of going broke. Nevertheless, rather than growing weaker, she seems to have become more formidable. How is this possible? And, perhaps more to the point, how can it possibly end?

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Family Struggled in Vain to Help Suffering Detainee - New York Times: "The wife and four sons of Maya Nand, who suffered cardiac arrest in an immigration detention center and later died, with his portrait. Mr. Nand’s last collect call “was the first time we ever heard our dad cry,” said Jay Ashis Nand, left. “He said, ‘Son, if you don’t get me out of here today, I’m going to die.’ ”"

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China mounts cyber attacks on Indian sites-India-The Times of India: "China’s cyber warfare army is marching on, and India is suffering silently. Over the past one and a half years, officials said, China has mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks, both government and private, showing its intent and capability. ( Watch: ‘China's cyber intrusion a threat’ )The sustained assault

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Reporters sans frontières - Sri Lanka: "Supreme leader of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Velupillai Prabhakaran tolerates no dissident voices in the areas his troops control. An advocate of ‘blind terrorism’, he has told the movement’s secret services which he set up in 1976 to boost surveillance of Tamil journalists, threatening those who dare to openly criticise LTTE

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TamilNet: 04.05.08 Ethnic divide reflected in Sri Lanka media coverage: "The polarization between Sri Lanka’s ethnic communities is also reflected in coverage of the island’s protracted conflict and has rendered ‘the truth’ an inevitable casualty of war, several speakers argued last week at the annual conference in London of the International Association of Tamil Journalists (IATAJ). The day-long

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Milestones: Barack Obama - The New York Times

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Do the right thing and shut up, Lee urges pastor | News | guardian.co.uk Film: "Lee hinted at a political conspiracy behind Wright's recent, contentious attempts to justify his remarks."

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Babies Thrown From 50ft Off Temple In India In A Ritual Seen As Sign Of Good Health |Sky News|World News: "Devotees at a Muslim shrine in western India's Maharashtra state believe the act makes children stronger.It is practised by couples who are blessed with a child after taking a vow at the Baba Sheikh Umar Saheb 'Dargah' (the Muslim place of worship) in the Musti village of Solapur."

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FOXNews.com - Indian Babies Dropped 50 Feet for Good Luck in Bizarre Ritual - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "A jaw-dropping ritual in India has infants plunging 50 feet from a tower to wish them good health."

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American media | On the brink | Economist.com: "Some of America's most venerable newspapers face extinction, unless they evolve"Indian media | Calling the shots | Economist.com: "India's newspapers embrace a profitable but questionable new sideline"

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Lexington | Wright's wrongs | Economist.com: "Will no one rid the airwaves of this turbulent priest?"

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Voting rules | Prove who you are | Economist.com: "A ruling that targets the disorganised, rather than Democrats"

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