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...true that when things go bad for any White House - and an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday night put Bush's approval rating at 37% - rumors of a shakeup always begin to fly. And indeed, all of the speculation was dismissed by some knowledgeable people as just that. However, CBS News reported Wednesday night that Howard Baker, who was Senate majority leader, chief of staff to Ronald Reagan and ambassador to Japan for this administration, had placed a call to the White House on Tuesday and "sent a direct message" to Chief of Staff Andrew Card urging...
...According to a Google News search, the nine days since the official announcement have generated over 1,000 articles about Summers in the United States alone. Seems like every major paper in the country has chimed in with an opinion about the Harvard presidency—as if the shakeup at Mass. Hall were the most important thing ever to happen in higher education. But what’s different, exactly, now that Summers is leaving? As the columnists preach on about all the brokenhearted undergrads mourning at the President’s feet, actual Harvard students—that...
...same from the crowded cities of the Gaza strip to hillside towns in the West Bank: It's time to teach the ruling Fatah party a lesson. As Palestinians lined up to vote Wednesday in their first legislative elections in ten years, many said that their government needed a shakeup. Fatah, founded by Yasser Arafat and led today by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, is widely viewed as corrupt and incompetent. According to polls, around a third of all Palestinian voters now support Hamas, a radical Islamist group committed to destroying Israel but also widely viewed among Palestinians...
...Valls, who reportedly is at odds with Sodano, is still running the press office, but is less and less visible. Meanwhile, Benedict himself doesn't seem particularly preoccupied with playing to the mass media. Some Vatican officials have expressed growing frustration that there has not been a predicted major shakeup in the top Church hierarchy. Perhaps further leaks to the media will prompt an end to Benedict's heavenly patience...
...everywhere in the world, will be routed over the Internet, [via] affordable, cell-phone-like products that are Skype- and Internet-enabled," predicts Skype ceo Niklas Zennström. In these early days of mobile VoIP, analysts find it difficult to quantify its potential impact. But many expect a shakeup. "Can carriers, either wireless or wireline, prevent its spread? The answer is no,'' says Allen Nogee of research firm In-Stat. The company forecasts that global shipments of mobile phones with wi-fi will hit 13.5 million in 2007, leap to 52.8 million in 2008, and surge to 136 million...