Happy Hour Roundup
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* White House budget director Peter Orszag: Sending 40,000 troops to
Afghanistan could cost $40 billion. Appears to be the White House’s first
public forca...
The Internet is Good for People Who Listen to Music!
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One of the crazier things about contemporary life is that you see tons of
words spilled on the question of how much the internet is hurting the music
indus...
Reid Considering Progressive Tax for HCR
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One of the key differences between the House and Senate legislation has been
the financing mechanism, with the House passing a tax of 5.4% on individuals ...
Gates Threatens to Fire Leakers
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates "is normally a mild-mannered man, at least in
public, but he unleashed a torrent on his plane on Thursday morning about
leak...
Cycles
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For a brief time it seemed like cell phone companies, flawed as they are,
had retreated a bit from their earlier widespread practices of screwing
their cus...
For the Soccer Fans Among You
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Much of my summer was spent on a consulting project that I did in
conjunction with ESPN, in which I helped them a design a soccer ratings
system known as t...