Microsoft is taking solid aim at a business that is arguably outside its core competence: advertising
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Microsoft takes aim at Google’s ad supremacy
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By Louise Story
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Microsoft has used its might, clout and smarts to take on any number of products and services — the browser, the operating system, the portable music player, to name just three — with varying degrees of success. Read More
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Britain’s buoyant borrow-and-spend era may be coming to an end, and there are accounts still to be settled
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British stoicism is no match for easy credit
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By Sarah Lyall
THE NEW YORK TIMES
LONDON
The scenes were jarring, incongruous, throwbacks to Depression-era America: panicky customers converging on bank branches across the country, desperate to withdraw their money before it was too late. Read More
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The US housing bubble: they cried wolf — they were right
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By Vikas Bajaj
THE NEW YORK TIMES
In May of 2004, Dean Baker, an economist in Washington who had been warning about excesses in the housing market, sold his two-bedroom condo after concluding that the market had lost its moorings from reality. Read More
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World of wine
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Moonlight wine, the next popular fad?
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By Dereck Foster
for the Herald
Making wine is simple — in theory. All that is necessary is healthy, ripe grape, a temperature sufficient to induce fermentation, some sort of filtering device, and that´s about it. Far too simple for most winemakers who have, over the centuries, sought constantly to improve and add to this simple scheme of things. Read More
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Is that so?
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Was yesterday better?
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By Howard Nelson
for the Herald
Memory can be tricky, and memory can be sly. Memory can lead us to believe even when we know — or feel — that what we are recalling was not so, or at least was rather different This is a factor which historians must take into account when attempting to set down for contemplation today, what happened yesterday. Read More
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The Indian cricket team’s victory over Pakistan on Monday in a new lean, swift version of the elegant old game came to signify something far larger than itself
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If it’s hip, fast and furious, is it cricket?
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By Somini Sengupta
THE NEW YORK TIMES
NEW DELHI
Cricket, always more allegory than sport in this country, is very often the screen on which India's anxieties and aspirations are projected. That is why the Indian cricket team's victory over Pakistan on Monday in a new lean, swift version of the elegant old game came to signify something far larger than itself. Read More
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By Guido Minerbi
FOR THE HERALD
9/11 brought back memories of the massacre at the WTC in Manhattan. Read More
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For the first time in many European countries, nonprescription drugs are being sold over the counter at outlets other than pharmacies
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Prying open European pharmacies
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By Elisabeth Rosenthal
THE NEW YORK TIMES
MILAN, Italy
It does not look like a scene of revolution in one tiny corner of a vast Carrefour hypermart here: a couple of perplexed customers scanning five open shelves stacked with aspirin, ibuprofen, antiseptic cream and cough medicine. Read More
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Platter chatter
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With elegance, taste and a touch of history too
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By Dereck Foster
for the Herald
Nobody can deny that one of the most attractive, historic and best preserved corners of Argentine history to be found on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, is the historic center of San Isidro. Small in extent but packed with architectural as well as the essence of bygone events, it is dominated by its elegant cathedral, inaugurated in 1905 and built on the site where, at the start of the 18th century a small chapel dedicated to San Isidro Labrador had stood. Read More
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Kia's corner
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United we eat
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By Fereydoun Kia
FOR THE HERALD
Presently, the international news media are full of reports from the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York. We see and hear about world leaders gathering, holding speeches and meeting behind the scene. Read More
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OFF TOPIC
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A generous gift
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By Kevin Carrel Footer
For the Herald
I am the recipient of the generous gift. I think of all the music, words and images that come to me, reside in me, flow through me and I know that I am fortunate. Read More
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Kia's corner
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United we eat
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By Fereydoun Kia
FOR THE HERALD
Presently, the international news media are full of reports from the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York. We see and hear about world leaders gathering, holding speeches and meeting behind the scene. Read More
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