Patrik Stollarz/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton behind President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan during a meeting in Germany in 2011. WASHINGTON — Last summer, as the fighting in Syria raged and questions about the United States’ inaction grew, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton conferred privately with David H. Petraeus, the director of the C.I.A. The...
Apple TV Is Running Late
Labels: TechnologySo, Apple‘s big plan to talk cable companies into making the iPod of the television industry thus far involves getting Time Warner to let it put HBO Go on its box (if you buy a cable subscription!), something other similar boxes already do. How very unexciting. It’s surprising that Apple TV doesn’t already offer HBO Go, since its biggest competitors Roku and Xbox 360...
Why is Beckham sitting on the bench for nothing?
Labels: LifestylePARIS (AP) — David Beckham has won league championships in three countries on two continents, earns millions of dollars in endorsements and his name is practically synonymous with celebrity itself. He has his own cologne, for goodness sake. So why is he even bothering to sit on the bench for the Paris Saint-Germain football club?His royal highness of football doesn't need the money — and he's said...
Ferrol Sams, Doctor Turned Novelist, Dies at 90
Labels: HealthFerrol Sams, a country doctor who started writing fiction in his late 50s and went on to win critical praise and a devoted readership for his humorous and perceptive novels and stories that drew on his medical practice and his rural Southern roots, died on Tuesday at his home in Lafayette, Ga. He was 90. The cause, said his son Ferrol Sams III, also a doctor, was that he was “slap wore...
Letters: Seeing Lincoln as a C.E.O.
Labels: BusinessTo the Editor: Re “Lincoln’s School of Management” (Jan. 27), which described the decision-making strategy for the Emancipation Proclamation as a model for today’s executives: The article’s description of how “Americans reacted strongly to the proclamation” said nothing of how enslaved African-Americans reacted. Instead, it focused only on big political players,...
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The Caucus: Brown Decides Against Massachusetts Senate Bid
Labels: WorldScott P. Brown said on Friday that he had opted out of the Senate race in Massachusetts to fill the seat being vacated by John Kerry.The decision leaves the Republicans without a candidate yet for the special election set for June 25, and it could leave the seat in Democratic hands.Other potential Republican candidates had been waiting for a signal from Mr. Brown, who was seen as the strongest Republican,...
Google moves closer to resolving EU investigation
Labels: TechnologyBRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google has offered to take specific steps to allay competition regulators’ concerns about its business practices, in a major move towards ending a two-year investigation and avoiding billions of dollars in fines.The European Commission said on Friday it had received detailed proposals from the world’s most popular search engine, which has been under investigation following complaints...
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis score unlikely hit
Labels: LifestyleNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The rapper Macklemore thinks there's a simple reason the hit "Thrift Shop" appears to be going viral: It dares to be different."There's a certain sound that has kind of flooded the mainstream airwaves as far as hip-hop music," he said a few hours after taping a performance on "Late Show with David Letterman" on Thursday night with producing partner Ryan Lewis. "The beat doesn't...
SciTimes Update: Recent Developments in Science and Health News
Labels: HealthMichael Probst/Associated PressBaby hedgehogs in Germany. Friday in science, clues to owls’ backwardness, fresh dangers to the seas and the launch of a giant kite. Check out these and other headlines from around the Web. Phil Marino for The New York TimesPhysicists monitored data from heavy ion collisions in the control room at Brookhaven National Laboratory particle collider in 2007....
Off the Charts: For Markets, a Strong January Is a Good Sign
Labels: BusinessAS January goes, so goes the year. That maxim of the American stock market would seem to bode well for the market this year. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index’s gain of 5 percent made the month the 12th best January since 1950, and the 19th opening month in that period when the index rose more than 4 percent. “If history repeats, we would expect a double-digit percentage increase...
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