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...CONTEXT On Nov. 14, almost two weeks after Jonathan Evans, Britain's domestic-intelligence head, said there could be up to 4,000 potential terrorists in the country, Brown unveiled a series of recommendations, including "additional screening of baggage and passenger searches" at train stations. Proposals also include additional barriers, vehicle-free zones and extra blast-proofing for public buildings to protect against car-bomb attacks...
...embrace the advertising models that Facebook and MySpace are pushing. "How do you serve up ads in such a fashion that your young, hip audiences aren't turned off by it?" asks venture capitalist Jim Timmins of Pagemill Partners. Google faced these same worries in 2004 when it launched context-sensitive ads inside its e-mail program Gmail. When the company went public later that year, skeptics voiced similar concerns about the viability of an ad-supported model for its search engine. Google now trades at more than $600 a share and could earn $4 billion this year...
...campaign ritual--fielding questions by Tim Russert on Meet the Press. His famous interview style seeks to trap politicians with their own words. But does the technique shed light on the candidates or does it require them to spend time providing context for their previous statements, crowding out more meaningful queries? It was Barack Obama's turn on Nov. 11; the previous week, Fred Thompson's. The Russert ratio of gotcha to substance questions...
...defying their stark surroundings, hundreds of golden candies gleam upon the grey floor in front of me. Félix González-Torres’s “Untitled” (Placebo – Landscape – For Roni) is a brilliant surprise, finding appropriate context in Le Corbusier’s stark modernist complex. The exhibition, curated by Helen Molesworth, Harvard University Art Museum’s new curator of contemporary art, runs until January 4, 2008. “Untitled” is one of Felix González-Torres’s beloved...
...Giuliani is betting that voters will see his promotion of Kerik in the broader context of his record. "I'm not running as the perfect candidate, and I'm not running as the perfect President," he said. "What I'm running as is someone who's had a great deal of success, and I think I can bring that success to Washington." But he is making another bet about Republican voters too. An operative from a rival campaign believes that Giuliani's bid for the White House can be reduced to two sentences: "I'm not a nice...