STLtoday.com – 11/21/2008 – Report: Several St. Louis County polling places had hours-long waits
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How Detroit Drove Into a Ditch – WSJ.com
Then I asked to visit the men’s room, and was stunned to see that there were two: one for hourly workers, and a separate one for management. I used the hourly men’s loo.
And at the end of each day they would disassemble each bike, piece by piece, to evaluate the workmanship.
But just as America didn’t understand the depth of ethnic and religious divisions in Iraq, Detroit failed to grasp — or at least to address — the fundamental nature of its Japanese competition. Japan’s car companies, and more recently the Germans and Koreans, gained a competitive advantage largely by forging an alliance with American workers.
Microsoft to Offer Free Security Software – NYTimes.com
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Angelina Jolie’s Carefully Orchestrated Image – NYTimes.com
“She’s scary smart,” said
Bonnie Fuller
, the former editor of Us Weekly and Star magazines. “But smart only takes you so far. She also has an amazing knack, perhaps more than any other star, for knowing how to shape a public image.”
Ms. Jolie informed it what time and place she would be publicly playing with Maddox, essentially creating a paparazzi shot.
The resulting photo, the origin of which was not made public to Us readers, presented Ms. Jolie in a new light — a young mother unsuccessfully trying to have a private moment with her son.
Still, such blunders are rare, and Ms. Jolie’s Q score, a measurement of a star’s likability, has continued to increase. Around the time she won her Oscar, 13 percent of people surveyed viewed her positively, according to Marketing Evaluations Inc. The average rating for female stars is 18 percent.
Building an Obama urban agenda – PD Opinion – cleveland.com
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teensygreen » Blog Archive » Brita Announces Recycling Program for Filters!
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Obama might get rid of daylight saving time – Boing Boing
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