Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
New York’s Bridges August 2nd, 2007 Given that the New York City Department of Transportation maintains 787 bridges, the collapse of the bridge across the Mississippi in Minneapolis raised immediate concerns here. A 2006 report on the state of the city’s bridges by the transportation department listed only three in poor condition—the lowest number since […]
MoreWhite House Aide Won’t Answer Questions of a Senate Panel By NEIL A. LEWIS Published: August 3, 2007 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 — J. Scott Jennings, a 29-year-old White House aide, refused repeatedly on Thursday to answer questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying he was under orders from President Bush not to respond. Brendan […]
MoreBy ADAM LIPTAK Published: August 3, 2007 Valerie Wilson may be the best known former intelligence operative in recent history, but a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that she was not allowed to say how long she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in the memoir she plans to publish this fall. Although […]
MoreGoogle Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market By AMOL SHARMA and KEVIN J. DELANEY August 2, 2007; Page A1 Google Inc. is searching for growth in cellphones. The company, which has made billions of dollars in Web advertising on computers, is courting wireless operators to carry handsets customized to Google products, including its […]
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