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...Subsequent to that, after some e-mails and frantic phone calls, Google updated their statement to properly characterize their relationship with StopBadware and to correct that the error was on their end,” Weinstein said in a phone interview yesterday...
Inside his house, Abed Rabu moved his injured family under the staircase for protection. Frantic, he began phoning the Red Crescent, friends with cars, anyone who might help him reach a hospital. His 2-year-old daughter, shot in the stomach, was demanding water. "I wet her lips with my finger. It was all I could do," says Kauthar, the mother...
...worry of Beijing's leadership as well. In a frantic effort to preserve jobs, officials are trying to stimulate the domestic economy to make up for lost export growth. In November, the government announced a $586 billion stimulus package, much of which is new infrastructure spending. Taxes on some real estate transactions were also suspended late last year to boost the sagging property sector, which accounts for some 10% of national employment. More steps are likely to come. Analysts expect the government to introduce measures to support the steel and auto industries...
...Putting the Democrats on Notice Democrats on Capitol Hill played Obama's unexpectedly generous business-oriented tax cuts to their advantage by swiftly demanding greater spending for their priorities. Whatever concessions Obama made in response - there were frantic closed-door meetings to calm the Democrats down - he was probably going to have to swallow in the form of more spending anyway. Meanwhile, he indicated that he was not inclined to permit Democrats in Congress to look for ways to prosecute outgoing Bush officials over their conduct on the war or their authorization of torture. And Obama, in contrast to House...
...whose home had been raided by Israeli troops the previous night. He was detained, and his wife was left at home with Israeli soldiers pointing their rifles at her head until late in the evening. When my sister-in-law finally called us after the soldiers left, she was frantic with worry. It wasn't until the next morning, Friday at 6 a.m., that we found out what had happened to him. The Israeli soldiers had held him all night, blindfolded and handcuffed in the cold, and interrogated him, along with five other men. My brother...