March 23, 2006 -- Apple's Steve Jobs is threatening to halt the successful iTunes music service in France rather than give in to lawmakers there who want Apple to share its technology with other tech companies, The Post has learned. (NY POST)
Wholesale prices dropped 1.4% in February as gasoline prices tumbled, but costs excluding volatile energy and food prices advanced 0.3%. (WSJ)
LINCOLN, Neb. -- The state of Nebraska pulled the plug on March Madness for its workers this year, worried that streaming video of the game could crash the state's computer system. This year, fans can stream free, live feeds of the NCAA basketball tournament, but state employees are banned from doing that at work. CBS.com's live video comes complete with a "boss button" in case someone peeks over a worker's shoulder. (KETV.COM)
''It's very disappointing, especially in Washington, D.C.,'' she said. ''You think this is the place where people come to make things happen. I'm just not sure why there aren't more people here today.'' (Anti war protester)
A paper recently co-authored by the academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government about the allegedly far-reaching influence of an "Israel lobby" is winning praise from white supremacist David Duke. (NY SUN)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. college graduates are facing the best job market since 2001, with business, computer, engineering, education and health care grads in highest demand, a report by an employment consulting firm showed on Monday.
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives is on track this year to be in session for fewer days than the Congress Harry Truman labeled as “do-nothing” during his 1948 re-election campaign. (USA TODAY)
The sedate, urbane world of public broadcasting was rattled Thursday as prosecutors charged three former employees of Michigan Public Media with illegally accepting golf club memberships, Persian rugs, airline tickets and massages in exchange for on-air considerations at the state's top public radio station. (Detroit Free Press)
The rapid recent growth of Hispanic-owned businesses in New York is outpacing the rest of the country, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released today. (NY SUN)
Belarus, then, is now the stage for a contest between two contrasting cultures. To the east: state control over the political, legal, and economic system, with the public sphere dominated by Slavophile nationalism and nostalgia for the Soviet era. To the west: an open society, with democracy, the rule of law, and free market capitalism. It is a contest from which only one side can emerge the victor, a duel to the death - perhaps literally.(NY SUN)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that he approves of talks between U.S. and Iranian officials on Iraq, but warned that the United States must not try to "bully" Iran.
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