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...Circuit City was incredibly successful in the 1980s and 1990s, but they never changed after that," says David Schick, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus. If it had adapted, it might have ended up like its chief rival, Best Buy, which in August reported both increased sales and a quarterly profit of $200 million. Instead, Circuit City reported a loss of $239 million in late September...
...mobilization of the youth vote was complemented, and perhaps in part generated, by its Web savvy and sophisticated use of online organizing tools, the fellows said. “The Internet is a tremendously collaborative, engaging media,” said Nicco A. Mele, the former chief of Howard Dean’s Web operations and the founder and president of EchoDitto. “It has a central and critical role in this coming administration.” Mele cited Obama’s e-mail database, which contains over 10 million e-mail addresses, and Obama?...
...Director of Undergraduate Studies Steven Shapin said that the chief reason behind the changes was to increase the visibility of the concentration and to reach out to those students who may not know much about...
...spent the past week denying rumors, parsing policy changes and insisting that she doesn't know where she'll end up in the new administration (although Beltway gossip suggests she may be appointed to Obama's seat in the Senate). Of her relationship with the 44th commander-in-chief, Jarrett says simply: "He is my dear friend. I would do anything the President of the United States asked...
There were conflicting reports about the nature and number of attacks in Kasra, which is part of the mixed Sunni and Shi'ite district of Khadamiya. The district's police chief issued a statement saying that there were twin car bombs. The Interior Ministry had a different view. In the first blast, the ministry said a car bomb planted in or near a mini-bus ferrying schoolgirls exploded. It was rapidly followed by a suicide bombing targeting onlookers rushing to help, according to an Interior Ministry official. The estimates numbered the dead from 25 to 31, with some 70 people...