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OF INNOVATION Illustration by FAYETTEVILLE, JOHNSON, shared office and part creative avant-garde dance troupe, a 2008 built Lexenomics, a project that
Peter Oumanski CLICK THE LOWELL, ROGERS, AND collective, Affinity Lab is transplant from N.Y.C., seduced holds networking gatherings and
FIRST LETTER OF THE STATE SPRINGDALE Razorback nurturing both for-profit and not- its new hometown -- and how ideas-based events, including a
to browse 51 -- yes, we included Regional Greenway These cities for-profit businesses. Back to Top Boise has embraced it -- is a speaker series to bring big
the District of Columbia! -- bold united to support the Razorback DELAWARE: WILMINGTON lesson in both arts marketing and thinkers to Kentucky. Back to Top
ideas and brilliant urbanites who Regional Greenway, a 36-mile West End Neighborhood House the cultural sophistication of the LOUISIANA: NEW ORLEANS
are helping to build the cities of hike-and-bike trail to link all six. An old settlement house turned heartland. Back to Top Byron Mouton | Tulane
America's future. A| C| D| F| G| H| No one city could have footed the full-scale social-services provider, ILLINOIS: CHICAGO Adrian University/Urbanbuild Mouton,
I| J| K| L| M| N| O| P| R| S| T| U| V| $38.5 million bill. The West End offers low-interest Holovaty | EveryBlock A an architecture professor, needs to
W collaboration scored $15 million payday loans as an alternative to hyperlocal-news aggregator from train his students. New Orleans
ALABAMA: BIRMINGHAM from the federal government. the typical high-interest kind. It web developer Holovaty, needs houses. Thus, Urbanbuild
Meagan and Darrius Peace | Back to Top also lends money for security EveryBlock emphasizes data that was born, with architecture
Magic City Black Expo Three CALIFORNIA: SAN DIEGO deposits and utility payments. All are often hard to access, such as students creating sustainable
years ago, the Peaces, owners of a Voiceofsandiego.org The staff of services come with financial crime statistics and restaurant- modern housing in the Lower
cosmetics company, decided that this website has set the standard counseling. Back to Top inspection info. Back to Top Ninth Ward. Back to Top
young black business owners like for online, hyperlocal FLORIDA: MIAMI P. Scott INDIANA: INDIANAPOLIS MAINE: PORTLAND Susan
themselves needed a local investigative journalism. Every Cunningham | University of The National Design District This Conley, Sara Corbett, and Mike
showcase. Today, the Magic City city could use such in-depth Wynwood Imagine the brainy redevelopment, centered on an old Paterniti | The Telling Room At
Black Expo is a nexus of reporting, which has held local stimulation of college without the auto factory, aims to build a this writing center founded by a
entrepreneurial camaraderie -- and officials to account and prompted loans or homework. That's what neighborhood-wide incubator. Its trio of journalists, youth are using
so important locally that it's a reform. Back to Top poet Cunningham sought when he live-work spaces are meant for storytelling to help boost literacy
regular stump stop for area COLORADO: DENVER The started the University of Wyn- professionals in the design fields. and self-confidence. Back to Top
politicos. Back to Top Reverend Ambrose Carroll | the wood to hold events promoting Back to Top MARYLAND: BALTIMORE
ALASKA: ANCHORAGE Renewal Worship Center Carroll contemporary literature. Back to IOWA: DUBUQUE Smarter The Baltimore Free School
Michael Sobocinski | Seeds of has taken faith-based initiatives to Top Sustainable Dubuque With a Anyone can teach and all classes
Change Community gardens are a new level with what you might GEORGIA: ATLANTA Michael helping hand from IBM, the city are, yes, free at the Baltimore Free
not new. Nor are efforts to aid call initiative-focused faith. His Rich | Emory Community of Dubuque is using cloud- School, created by some of the
youth in the juvenile-justice inner-city church has an explicitly Building and Social Change computing technology to gather staff at Red Emma's bookshop.
system. But merge the two, as environmental emphasis and an Fellowship This interdisciplinary data on -- and ultimately cut The eclectic curriculum includes
Sobocinski did, and add a social outreach arm that offers green-job program, created by poli-sci prof levels of -- water and electric classes on film, font design, and
enterprise selling vegetables from training and placement. Back to Rich, gives Emory University usage. Back to Top European politics. Back to Top
the gardens -- then you have a Top students hands-on experience with KANSAS: OLATHE Olathe MASSACHUSETTS: BOSTON
program with the potential to CONNECTICUT: NEW community development. Back to Works Well Clinic This Health Leads For the past 15
change lives on multiple levels. HAVEN Ben Berkowitz | Top pioneering clinic for current and years, the not-for-profit Health
Back to Top SeeClickFix When Berkowitz saw HAWAII: KAUAI Justin retired city employees, which Leads has been redefining
ARIZONA: PHOENIX graffiti near his home, he tried to MacNaughton | GreenCar Hawaii charges no copays and focuses on medical care. In its holistic model,
Nicollette Lewis and Priya Nathan notify the right authorities. Not MacNaughton's startup takes car preventive health, is shaving doctors can prescribe food, job
| Partnered For Success This easy. So he built SeeClickFix, a sharing in a clever, locally driven millions of health-care dollars a training, and housing aid as easily
project, started by Arizona State site where citizens can post such direction perfect for tourist- year from the municipal budget. as pharmaceuticals. Back to Top
students Lewis and Nathan, pairs alerts and flag any they deem centric communities: the hotel. Back to Top MICHIGAN: DETROIT
foster kids with local collegians urgent. Some 30 cities use a Guests can rent by the hour, via KENTUCKY: LEXINGTON TechTown A stunning factoid:
who can lend listening ears and premium version of the site. Back kiosks in the hotel lobby. Back to Eric Patrick Marr | Lexenomics The fastest-growing tech-job
the wisdom of their years. Back to to Top Top How can Lexington spur growth? UNITED page 4
Top D.C.: WASHINGTON Affinity IDAHO: BOISE Trey McIntyre Via communication and
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market in the U.S. over the past ecosystem. Back to Top winning firm specializes in city- OKLAHOMA: OKLAHOMA sanitation workers to log
year was Detroit. A key part of NEBRASKA: LINCOLN revitalizing "infill" and CITY Ron Norick | MAPS Some problems -- say, a pile of debris.
the equation is TechTown, an StarTran The local public-transit brownfields projects. Back to Top cities try to lure businesses to The data are used to create a daily
incubator started in 2004 by authority has worked hard to help NEW YORK: BINGHAMTON restore them- selves. As OKC citywide "to-do" map to deploy
Wayne State University that's now reduce driving miles in the city to The Design Your Own Park mayor from 1987 to 1998, Norick staff smartly and save fuel. Back
home to 220 firms. Back to Top the lowest of any U.S. metro area Competition Too often, amenities realized the city needed to restore to Top
MINNESOTA: MINNEAPOLIS with a population under 250,000. like parks are conceived by itself to lure business. His MAPS SOUTH DAKOTA: SIOUX
Metro Transit Ride to Rewards In Also awesome: a program bureaucrats, not end users. plan involved no debt; a voter- FALLS Phillips to the Falls
the nation's first public-transit offering monthly bus passes to Binghamton changed that with a backed 1¢ sales tax paid for new Revitalization The federally
frequent-rider program, you can low-income residents for just contest that invites residents to infrastructure. Today, downtown funded remake of an industrial
collect points -- tradable for ride $7.50. Back to Top plan revamps of neglected spaces. is abuzz and the NBA's Thunder riverfront area has boosted the
credits or Visa gift cards -- both NEVADA: RENO Jason Geddes The first new parks will be call OKC home. Back to Top city as a whole and shown the
by using the system and by | City of Reno There's much talk finished this year. Back to Top OREGON: PORTLAND Cindy importance of partnerships, public
shopping at partner retailers. Back of wind power today, but which NORTH CAROLINA: Cooper | Portland State University and private. Back to Top
to Top turbines work best? Geddes, CHARLOTTE The Charlotte Social Innovation Incubator Tech TENNESSEE: KNOXVILLE
MISSISSIPPI: PASS Reno's environmental-services Regional Partnership This group has incubators, but not-for-profits Alex Lavidge | Knoxville
CHRISTIAN Evelina Shmukler | administrator, is testing them side aims to build Charlotte into an and social enterprises? Started last Overground The city's first
the Pass Christian Gazebo Gazette by side in a project that has energy R&D hub by emphasizing year by Cooper, the SII features a coworking space attracts the self-
This newspaper, born after deployed nine turbines in education and training. Its Circuit Program that provides six employed who seek collaboration.
Hurricane Katrina, quickly Nevada's third-biggest city. Back strength: buy-in from all quarters, months of startup assistance to Lavidge has also created a series
became vital for a city that lacked to Top including big business (Duke five new social entrepreneurs each of podcasts about Knoxville
a resource for local news and NEW HAMPSHIRE: Energy calls Charlotte home), city year. Back to Top entrepreneurs. Back to Top
information. Started, owned, and MANCHESTER Emily Shakra | government, and local PENNSYLVANIA: TEXAS: HOUSTON Rick Lowe
operated by journalist Shmukler, Building on Hope After Extreme universities. Back to Top PHILADELPHIA Christian | Project Row Houses A
the Gazebo Gazette doesn't claim Makeover: Home Edition did an NORTH DAKOTA: FARGO Kunkel | Startup Corps An community-building program
to be objective; it's a proud episode in New Hampshire, Karen Stoker | Hotel Donaldson initiative to back youth enterprise, under the guise of a house-rehab/
community cheerleader. Back to Shakra was inspired to continue in Every city needs smart Startup Corps has funded ventures artist-support effort, Lowe's
Top that spirit, uniting local builders to entrepreneurs and good hosts. such as a hip-hop label, a not-for- Project Row Houses boasts artist
MISSOURI: ST. LOUIS Schlafly aid those who need building help. Stoker is both. She's the proprietor profit trying to make prom housing, meeting space, and
Bottleworks Over the past 20 Her current project: a group home of Hotel Donaldson, Fargo's fiscally viable for low-income redevelopment in a poor part of
years, this microbrewery has for boys. Back to Top chicest lodging, a repository of students, and a diner. Back to Top Houston. Back to Top
blossomed into a community hub, NEW JERSEY: CAMDEN Dr. creativity (each room was RHODE ISLAND: UTAH: SALT LAKE CITY
hosting lectures, foodie Jeffrey Brenner | Camden designed by an area artist), and a PROVIDENCE Umberto Crenca | Clear the Air Challenge Driving
gatherings, and even a special Coalition of Healthcare Providers symbol of and a catalyst for the AS220 Crenca has shown how an less has been a game in S.L.C.
series of Washington University Brenner learned that 1% of those revitalization of this North Dakota arts not-for-profit can be a during each of the past two
classes. Back to Top who used Camden's hospitals and city. Back to Top keystone of urban renewal. summers. Teams, formed to
MONTANA: MISSOULA Urban clinics racked up 30% of costs. OHIO: CINCINNATI Strive AS220's studio space, artist telecommute and carpool, cut
Fringe Development Area Project He hypothesized that Partnership It takes a village -- or housing, and café/bar have helped pollution and shine a light on bad
This dynamic road map, microtargeting them for treatment a whole city -- to boost education. boost a once-seedy area and lift habits and conservation
coordinated jointly by the city of would slash city health spending Strive Partnership's "cradle-to- property values. Back to Top possibilities. The 2010 contest
Missoula and Missoula County, is and save lives. He was right. Back career" model unites more than SOUTH CAROLINA: saved $735,000 in vehicle costs.
used to allocate where growth to Top 300 organizations and interest CLEMSON Jim Oswald | Back to Top
should go. The goal: to balance N E W M E X I C O : groups, including businesses, PinPoint Public Works This GPS VERMONT: BURLINGTON
the needs of the booming ALBUQUERQUE Calott + parents, and schools to do that in -- based touch-screen platform, UNITED page 10
population and Montana's fragile Gifford Architecture This award- Cincy. Back to Top developed by Oswald, enables
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is likely to seek a second term at that oversees the world economy difficult hurdles for his governments seek, has not are raping the Libyan people and
the election next April. and has authorized hundreds of presidential bid would be "money, materialized. urging them to give up.
France's government as well as billions of dollars of loans to women and my Jewishness". NATO HITS TRIPOLI, "Nobody has the right to make the
Strauss-Kahn's allies and rivals troubled countries. (Additional reporting by Michelle ZAWIYAH lives of their people a living hell,"
called for caution and respect for The IMF faces questions of its Nichols, Lesley Wroughton, State-run television in Libya says the broadcast, heard by
the presumption of innocence. But own, because Strauss-Kahn's Noeleen Walder, Christine reported on Monday that there Reuters on a Libyan army radio
unless the case against him character had been questioned Kearney, Andrew Longstreth, were NATO strikes on Tripoli, the taken by rebels in the Western
collapses rapidly, it is hard to see before. In 2008, he apologized for Brian Love, Catherine Bremer, town of Zawiyah about 50 km (30 Mountains.
how he could enter the Socialist "an error of judgment" after an John Irish, Gernot Heller, Evren miles) west of the capital, the "Stop fighting against your own
primary, for which the deadline affair with a female IMF Ballim; Writing by Peter western Tripoli suburb of Tajoura, people," it continues, saying that
for candidates to declare is July economist who was his Millership and Paul Taylor, and on the town of Zuara, 120 km the Libyan leadership has lost
13. subordinate. editing by Sonya Hepinstall) (80 miles) west of Tripoli. control and recruited non-Libyan
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Strauss-Kahn is out. as there have been persistent You Don't Succeed - Four Reuters by telephone that NATO Gray-Block in The Hague, Matt
French voters are famously rumors about Strauss-Kahn Decades Of US-UK Attempts To had been hitting government Falloon, Peter Apps and Adrian
tolerant of political leaders' making sexual advances to Topple Gadafi. weapons depots about 30 km (20 Croft in London, James
extramarital affairs, but the women. miles) from the town. Mackenzie in Rome, David
allegations against Strauss-Kahn The left-leaning French daily "The strikes started at 2:00 a.m. Brunnstrom; Writing by Peter
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I'm not optimistic regarding such future. Iraq cost the U.S. plenty, Photo: U.S. President Barack President Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Topple Gadafi.
a path, especially given President but it was a country worth Obama with Afghan President Afghanistan, May 12, 2011 (photo
Obama's fixation on nuclear recasting, especially now that the Hamid Karzai and Pakistani from the Web site of the prime
proliferation. Instead, I expect he Arab Spring has come along. President Asif Ali Zardari (White minister of India).
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(CNET News.com) alleged thief, but also to take One of the pair--@nickreese, Power told CBC he won't be
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Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:32:55 AM photographs of him as he logged who describes himself as a pressing charges. Instead, before
into a Chase bank account, Gmail, strategic thinker and change disappearing to a farm for the Frequent use of hand sanitizers
And they said Twitter was just and Skype. Power even posted the maker (don't we all?)--decided weekend, he tweeted: "I am can lead to a false positive result
another useless, self-aggrandizing alleged thief's name. that it would be fun to confront happily reunited with my laptop. I on certain types of tests that
waste of finger-pressing. Naturally, Power contacted the the man. slept so much last night that I screen for alcohol use. That's
So see what you make of this police, too. In the meantime, When Power realized that one of didn't even look inside the bag to pretty bad news for health
tale, related by CBC, of a though, Power's Twitter followers his Twitter followers had gone so see what was in it!" professionals, who depend on
Canadian who says his MacBook began to do what Twitter far as to place himself in potential He also insisted on Twitter that germ-killing sanitizers every day
was stolen last week in New followers do: they followed. No, danger, Power was concerned. he has no connection to Prey and and are tested routinely for
York. literally. Some of them began to "It was just stress when I realized that this is not some splendid alcohol use.
Sean Power, who happens to be a follow the alleged thief for real-- there were people who literally publicity caper. “Anyone out there who is
Web analyst and all round geekish in the real world of New York. could have been risking their lives Say what you will about Twitter, required to abstain from alcohol
hero, suddenly remembered on The police, though, wouldn't for a stupid piece of plastic," he but it does create connections that needs to be very cognizant about
Thursday that he had installed come out until Power filed a told CBC. previously would never have been alcohol that may be hidden in
Prey tracking software and began report. So, with his Twitter However unlikely, the operation made--even if it's only to help products such as handwashing
to wonder whether he might be followers hot on the trail (Power went smoothly, and @nickreese recover a stupid piece of plastic gels, mouthwashes, hairsprays,
able to follow the alleged thief. himself was back in Canada), even persuaded the man to talk to from Cupertino. And Twitter and cosmetics,” says Gary
Then he had another thought: Power begged them not to do Power on the phone. It must have doesn't seem to hire PR Reisfield, an assistant professor of
perhaps he could tweet about this anything silly, violent, or been an endearing conversation. companies to say nasty things psychiatry at the University of
situation. untoward. He tweeted: Whatever was said, the man about Google, either. Florida. “You need to be careful
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picture and IP of the guy that has appeared at the bar where Power In reality, I just helped out a You Don't Succeed - Four
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do next? http://awe.sm/5J8gI." Power tweeted about the pair: would do the same for me. Would Topple Gadafi.
Over the next several hours, "OK. There are two people you?"
Power began to use the Prey currently in place at the bar. There is the question. The
software not only to follow the @nickreese and a non-twitterer." answer: some yes, some no.
centralize its services identity last few years, and moving become the back end for Bing Maps, that doesn't necessarily
under one brand, not two. forward, our mission remains Maps. This is not new mean that Microsoft's mapping Thousands of people flock to
However, DeVard assures us, all unchanged: we will continue our information, of course - Nokia innovations, like Bird's Eye view, music festivals every year. Each
service roadmaps will continue as work to deliver compelling, and Microsoft have both said Street Side view and PhotoSynth, festival has its own character and
planned. unified mobile service offerings since day one of their partnership would disappear. flair, but they all have one thing in
Sponsor and next-generation, disruptive that Nokia Maps would become But will "Maps" on Windows common: music. If you are a fan
Ovi to Nokia Transition Begins technologies.” the new core mapping service for Phone be branded as "Nokia of music festivals, have a go at
in July This name change makes sense Windows Phone devices in this Maps" or "Bing Maps," or just this quiz and see what you know
The transition from Ovi branding for the company, which is poised new collaboration between the "Maps?" Will end users realize a about a few of the most popular
to Nokia will begin in July 2011, to launch its first devices based on two companies. back-end change has occurred? music festivals in the world.
and will be completed across all Microsoft's Windows Phone The Microsoft-watching blog This is where details become Earn a point for every right
countries and service by the end operating system in the months LiveSide added their thoughts more vague. But as LiveSide answer! Save your score at the
of 2012. Anyone buying a new ahead. These devices are expected about the Search Engine Land notes, most consumers won't care end of the quiz.
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will speak of the mass-state, of confidence in the efficacy of their recognition and reassurance weakness. It makes it possible for
dictatorship, of totalitarianism, or wisdom. Xenophon had their against personal insecurity always Nicolas Sarkozy to say watery
authoritarianism, and so on, and number 2,500 years ago: Just as runs deeper than the need for a things such as "Qaddafi is not
as a citizen he may the poet Simonides hopes to huge cash stash; think of Imelda perceived as a dictator in the Arab
wholeheartedly condemn these instruct the tyrant Hiero on how to Marcos's shoe collection, and the world. He is the longest-serving
things; but as a political scientist
he is forced to reject the notion of
govern as a benevolent dictator,
today's wise poets of human
nearly uniform practice of
plastering the tyrant's picture
head of state in the region--and, in
the Arab world, that counts," and
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tyranny as 'mythical.'" improvement think they can at the more ubiquitously than the Coca- for Hillary Clinton to say of and Out of Any
Barber and other intellectuals very least moderate the modern Cola logo. The greed and the Syria's Assad, "Many of the
who cozied up to Qaddafi did tyrant's excesses if only they gain vanity are expressions of the same members of Congress of both Windows
eventually render such value his ear. And even if the tyrant is underlying pathology of tyranny. parties who have gone to Syria in
judgments, but only after the unwilling to govern in a way that The lowliest social-science recent months have said they Application with
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violent oppression is largely to overlook its markers, which are of the clear teachings of and his kind, it would have the Windows: With Aero, Microsoft
absent. obvious even in cases in which Xenophon, whose Hiero tells virtue of being true. Steven F. added a nifty magnifier tool to
Intellectuals have always been violent oppression is largely Simonides that the tyrant "lives Hayward is a resident scholar at Windows 7 and Vista that enables
cheap dates for tyrants, never absent. One hallmark of the tyrant night and day as one condemned AEI. you to zoom in—regardless of the
more so than during the Cold is that he always loots his people by all human beings to die for his US Navy Photo application—on the fine details on
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proximity to power: hence poor and decaying country. Cuba consider liberalizing its Topple Gadafi.
Thomas Friedman's endless Egypt's Hosni Mubarak had a economy, arguing that they'd both
"China is awesome" columns. more modest $3.5 billion in his end up swinging from a lamppost
Behind the immense egos of own Swiss bank account, but in a matter of months.
"internationally renowned there are rumors that his net worth The elites' excusing of tyranny
political theorists" such as Barber may be as much as $70 billion. has real-world consequences, as it
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anything like "victory" have long "Any sign of that?" I asked. to be born, one often hears, an -moon, asking the organization to AM ET 2011-05-16T10:47:29
since vanished, but so have most "No," he said, citing the Afghan Afghanistan of institutions rather abandon its current role Tampa— Tampa Bay's special
fears that falling short of victory president's continuing protection than one of tribal and ethnic overseeing national elections. teams proved especially effective
will jeopardize American national of highly placed criminals and loyalties. A vibrant private sector So the bridge to the future is once again on Saturday. Through
security. The essential remaining warlords and unwillingness to is emerging; an unfettered media, extremely rickety, and perhaps the first two rounds of the
questions, then, are what they permit independent political in league with civil society also booby-trapped. But the U.S. playoffs, the Lightning dominated
once were in Vietnam: How fast i n s t i t u t i o n s , i n c l u d i n g t h e groups, is exposing the corruption official I spoke to said that he special-teams play against
do we leave? And what do we p a r l i a m e n t , t o f l o u r i s h . and cynicism of the old order; a would advocate a deliberate Pittsburgh and Washington,
leave behind? My impression, So why bother at all? Why not new generation has been weaned drawdown of forces even if he scoring key power-play goals and
after a short trip to Afghanistan, is crate everything up and leave as on Western ideals and technology. thought the probability of a good killing off virtually every power
that the United States should fast as possible? There are several Mahmoud Saikal, a former deputy outcome in 2014 was low. Hasn't play against. In Game 1 of the...
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he asked. "Yes, but it will take loyalists. The Somalization of Karzai. Even if Karzai, who is Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
some luck." Pakistan would have Afghanistan would be even more widely said to be exhausted and Topple Gadafi.
t o a p p l y p r e s s u r e t o t h e dreadful than a Talibanization, played out, chooses not to run
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platform nature of the it make it strong board complements the openings, all for the $8000 fee. year, with a compounded annual example of Fred’s point, as it too
very difficult for a competitor to management team, led by That’s a powerful cost savings growth rate (CAGR) of >50% benefits from the free viral
steal share. The size will remain Chairman / Cofounder Reid and likely a large reason behind through 2013. This should put the marketing of its product.
attractive to recruiters and leave Hoffman who was also the CEO the explosive clients growth – it’s company ~ $1b in revenue by After this year, margins should
less of a budget to help support from 2003-2007 and an EVP at simply a good product. 2014. One of the great things start to grow, hitting mid teens
smaller upstart competition. PayPal. Also on the board is well 8. Very Few “Warnings” in the S about this revenue is that it’s next year and ~20% by 2013 –
Facebook and Google have the -respected VC partner Mike -1—The document that the highly visible, as customers longer term EBITDA margins
size and can try to penetrate the Moritz (Sequoia), who has been company files to do its IPO is commit to yearlong packages. should grow north of 30%. This
“professional graph” but it is not on the boards of Google, Yahoo!, called an S-1. This is where all Hiring solutions should represent margin expansion means that
at their core. While Facebook may Zappos and is currently on the the financial information and > 50% of revenues this year, profits are growing faster than
have cornered the “social graph” board of Green Dot. discussion of the business resides. growing over 130%; but the other revenues – a great thing for the
on the Internet, I think LinkedIn is The rest of the board is very Moreover, it’s where the company two segments (Marketing company and investors. Free Cash
clearly a leader in the strong as well with the former has to disclose as many warnings Solutions and Premium Flow (cash flow from operations
“professional graph” – further, I CEO of Ask Jeeves(Skip Battle), about its business as possible (i.e. Subscriptions) are growing >70% – capital expenditures) should be
don’t think it would be easy for CMO of Netflix(Leslie Kilgore) this is where it points out every and 50% respectively. near flat this year, as the company
Facebook to spread its social and respected VCs Greylock and potential pitfall to protect itself International growth is fueling a invests aggressively. However, as
graph dominance into the TCV. It’s this leadership that is later should something go wrong). lot of this but it still represents a the company spends more at
“professional graph,” as people deciding to build LinkedIn for the For example, when Demand large opportunity as International normalized levels, free cash flow
general want to separate their long term, investing in the near Media filed its S-1 for its IPO, was only 27% of revenues in should approach $100 in 2013.
close friends and family from term against the tremendous long one of the first warnings, was that 2010. Coupled with this strong This metric should grow even
work colleagues – each group of term opportunity – I like that they it was susceptible to any changes revenue growth is the long-term faster than EBITDA, as capex
people should see different are focusing on maximizing the by Google’s algorithm – we’ve margin expansion – currently reduces to normalized levels of
information. Smaller, focused long term value, and not feeling recently seen how Google’s LinkedIn’s EBITDA (think of as 8% of revenues over time.
sites (i.e. Dice.com for technology pressured to juice near term “panda” algorithm change has cash operating profit) is only in Lastly, the company will have a
jobs) can co-exist due to their financials for Wall Street. hurt Demand Media’s traffic. But the mid single digits, as the very clean balance sheet as it
hyper specialization, but longer 7. The Product is Better– It’s what struck me in reading the company is investing for the starts its public life – the company
term these sites have to keep an more Economical for Recruiting LinkedIn warnings (officially future (i.e. infrastructure, will have no debt and ~ $300m of
eye on what further products / Clients - Not only do I see value dubbed “risk factors”), were the increased sales people). cash. It can use this cash for
abilities LinkedIn creates. in the core of the product lack of any really significant Side Note: One point I want to further investments, acquisitions,
6. Top Notch Leadership & Well (creating a networking base for issues. Don’t get me wrong, there make here is the “ Fred Wilson or for a rainy day should the
Respected Board– While many members), but I also think that were many boilerplate risk factors marketing point.” If you’ve economy turn sour for a while.
investors will look at the quality LinkedIn provides a more (short operating history, stock followed the Internet sector lately, Once again, this is a great place
of a management team, I think the economic means for corporate could be volatile, susceptible to prominent Union Square VC for the company to be as it gives it
board quality can be just as clients to find job candidates. For cyber attacks, etc), but there partner Fred Wilson implied that cushion, as well as options.
important. LinkedIn happens to example, the average package for wasn’t anything unusual to worry the best companies don’t need to 10. Valuation is More
have high quality in both areas. a company looking to find a about. This is fantastic for spend as much on marketing as Reasonable Then First Glance-
On the management side, the team candidate to fill a job opening is investors, as this is where the companies with inferior products Taking the high end of the
is led by CEO Jeff Weiner who $8000 / yr. That compares to the company really tries to stress all (I’m paraphrasing). I agree with offering range ($32-35 per share),
earned a strong reputation at typical 25% of the candidate’s that could go wrong to protect this to an extent, as great products LNKD appears to have an
Yahoo!, where he worked for 7 base salary fee that’s usually paid itself later. tend to get “free” viral marketing. Enterprise Value of ~$3.5b and
years until 2008. Complementing to recruiters (or $25,000 on a 9. Tremendous Financials- All of LinkedIn’s near term investments can be viewed as richly valued at
Jeff is CFO Steven Sordello, who $100,000 salary). So a large the points I’ve made above would in Sales & Marketing, are not 45x next year’s EBITDA and
has earned a strong reputation as corporation can use the site to not be mute, without the support of being spent on advertising, but 240x next year’s earnings.
CFO of two public companies: only fill 1 job opening cheaper, strong financials. LinkedIn more on ramping the sales force. HERE page 45
Ask Jeeves and TiVo. The very but also it can fill multiple job should grow revenue >70% this I believe LinkedIn is a great
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Muammar Gaddafi himself, direct them at risk, Ocampo said. punished". army's responsibility ... and since Khaled said. "But what happened
evidence of Saif al-Islam "Gaddafi ruled Libya through Prosecutors are also investigating they are basically everywhere, last night and what happened to
organising the recruitment of fear, and Libyans are losing their allegations of mass rapes, war this is them telling us that my friend made this idea
mercenaries, and direct evidence fear now," he said. crimes committed by different whatever happens in this country, concrete."
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Rory Challands said. force and must rely on states to Rights Council, which itself is due was unclear whether Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
But the two-and-a-half months it enforce any arrests - a strategy to report on the situation on June interrogations had begun or what Topple Gadafi.
has taken to come up with a which has failed to produce 7. charges might be filed.
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because the Gaddafi regime had
committed its crimes in only a
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had been committed in a short
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responsibility to make arrests and
that he expected Libyans to hand
over the three men on their own.
Richard Dicker, at New York-
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Investigators received numerous based Human Rights Watch, said Submitted at 5/16/2011 6:51:25 AM is working except for two things:
phone calls from sources inside the request for arrest warrants "is 1. The order is all screwed up.
Libya but took no official a warning bell to others in Libya As you probably know, I'm using Every time I post a new item it's
testimony, since it would have put that serious crimes there will be my new Blork tool to do all my like shuffling the deck.
link publishing these days. My 2. The dates are wrong on the
IMF links flow, through RSS, to other posts. They all say May 16. Even
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impact on bailout plans for international community. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- course. And now they flow to a published on May 15.
struggling eurozone nations. "We're hearing rumours that Mr only/faq.php#publishers. Five new place: Tumblr. I know that Tumblr has them in
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Lipsky, has stepped in as acting stepping down from the IMF, You Don't Succeed - Four I wanted to do this for three because when I go to the
managing director. notwithstanding any court Decades Of US-UK Attempts To reasons: dashboard they are in the right
"The IMF remains fully appearance or whether or not the Topple Gadafi. 1. More and more people are order.
functioning and operational," a charges stick," our correspondent using Tumblr. I see that other people are having
spokeswoman for the IMF said. said. 2. It's beautiful. similar problems.
Paul Brennan, Al Jazeera's This entry passed through the 3. It seems uniquely suited to link PS: My links flow to Tumblr
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If Sedin were another player, point. not scoring. If you create enough,
perhaps with a lesser salary or “I saw a 2-on-1 in front of the net the puck's going to go in sooner or
different birthplace — like one in and their defenceman took away later.”
Canada — he would be lionized Danny because he wanted the And the Henrik factor?
for his toughness in playing puck really badly, too,” Ehrhoff “You have to play like you're 100
through injury and his willingness said. “He was slapping his stick per cent; there's no other way,”
to get out front and lead at a time [on the ice] and that got the D's Danny said. “If Henrik's out there,
when expectations and pressure attention. It opened up Hank a he has to play as good as he can.”
on the Canucks have never been little more and he did the rest. Maybe he is.
higher. “I know he's taking a lot of imacintyre@vancouversun.com
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on a harrowing 90 minute trip of the way by another parent. parents of the kids she was
from Fairfield to the team's meet The worst part of all is that this transporting, but also with the
in Keokuk. Sensing that reportedly wasn't the first time school and the state of Iowa.
something was wrong with their that Steinbeck had gotten behind It's miracle that Steinbeck never
head coach, the Des Moines the wheel drunk with the golf wrecked the SUV and injured the
Register reported that some of the team. girls on the team. Hopefully this
girls on the team started to text "(My daughter) Liz complained to story is a wake up call for parents
their parents in case they crashed. me in the past that Susie had a if their child ever complains of a
"Ohh myy goshh susie is going to problem controlling vehicles, coach driving erratically on the
kill us! She cant stay on the road! wandering all over the road," roads to a sporting event.
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Stalemate in Libya
Rick Moran (FrontPage two weeks – since the reported negotiated way out. In Brussels,
Magazine » FrontPage) death of his son after a Tomahawk NATO spokeswoman Carmen
Submitted at 5/15/2011 11:17:04 PM cruise missile struck his living Romero said,“There can be no
quarters in Tripoli on April 30. solely military solution to the
As the war in Libya enters its This led to speculation, both crisis in Libya” – a significant
third month, forces loyal to official and unofficial, that statement coming from a source
Muammar Gaddafi have finally Gaddafi may have been badly that was saying one month ago
been pushed out of the rebel-held injured or killed in the same that “Gaddafi must go.”
city of Misrata after a siege action. Ostensibly, any negotiated
lasting for most of the conflict. But Gaddafi appeared in a news solution would involve the
But the fact that a reversal might clip on Thursday taken at a dictator, and anything short of
take place at any time highlights downtown Tripoli hotel meeting Gaddafi leaving the country and
an emerging truth about the with tribal leaders. While there handing the rebels total victory
NATO-led action: the only was no sound from the clip, the would be a humiliation for NATO
decisive blow that could be struck camera panned in on a desk clock and the UN.
by the UN forces to end the that read“Wednesday, May 11.” It is doubtful that there will be
conflict is the killing of Gaddafi. NATO refuses to say whether the victory on the battlefield for the
Meanwhile, members of the air strikes a few hours later were opposition forces despite their
Obama administration will meet t h e r e s u l t o f G a d d a f i ’ s first real success in weeks that
with the leadership of the Libyan a p p e a r a n c e . “ N A T O i s n o t occurred in the besieged city of
National Transitional Council in targeting individuals,” Brigadier Misrata. A battle that raged for
W a s h i n g t o n o n F r i d a y t o General Claudio Gabellini was complex in the middle of of hostilities was echoed by days at the airport ended with
underscore American support for quoted as saying. Gaddafi’s fortified compound. If NGOs and other aid groups in Gaddafi’s forces completely
the rebels. At the UN, Secretary While there are reports of unrest they are not targeting the dictator Libya where a humanitarian routed and the rebels in total
General Ban Ki-Moon has called in the Gaddafi stronghold of directly, it can be said that they disaster is occurring in cities like control. Significantly, opposition
for a ceasefire to address the Tripoli, the dictator’s forces would not be unhappy if one of Misrata. The western port city has forces pushed Gaddafi’s army far
massive humanitarian crisis appear to have a firm grip on the their air strikes were to catch little food, fuel, or water for the enough away from Misrata so that
caused by the war, especially in population and there is little Gaddafi in the wrong place at the people who haven’t fled the city most of the city is now free of
the city of Misrata. And despite chance that a revolt that might wrong time. with a pre-war population of bombardment. The indiscriminate
claims from NATO that they are overthrow Gaddafi could erupt in NATO should hope that its luck 100,000. use of artillery and tank fire killed
only hitting “military targets” in the capitol. on that score changes soon. Ban’s call may fall on deaf ears thousands of civilians and resulted
Tripoli, another air strike smashed Nevertheless, NATO has stepped Secretary General Ki-Moon has at the moment – the rebels in most of the remaining
a n u n d e r g r o u n d b u n k e r i n up attacks against Tripoli in called for“an immediate, unceremoniously rejected it – but inhabitants moving into
Gaddafi’s compound just hours r e c e n t d a y s , h i t t i n g verifiable cease-fire” in Libya on as the conflict drags on into its basements and cellars.
after he made an appearance on communications and “command Wednesday and freedom of third month with no end in sight,
Libyan television. and control facilities” last night, movement for humanitarian pressure may begin to come from
The dictator had not been seen in including an underground bunker workers. The call for a cessation NATO for some kind of
Newstablet Edition Politics-Right/ 73
Israel Invaded
Robert Spencer (FrontPage unappeasable jihadist enemy.
Magazine » FrontPage) No state has ever successfully
Submitted at 5/15/2011 11:20:38 PM reached a negotiated settlement
with a jihadist enemy who avows
Israel was invaded Sunday. a religious obligation to destroy it.
This time, however, the invaders So why is Israel constantly
weren’t armed forces. expected to be the first? Barack
Nonetheless, they did not come in Obama and virtually everyone
peace, and their attempt to enter else in power in America and
Israel was no less an act of war Europe assume that the violent
than the invasions of 1967 and demonstrators who breached
1973, and the rockets that Israel’s borders on Sunday will
jihadists regularly shoot into ultimately be pacified once a
Israel from Gaza. Palestinian state is set up. Yet as
Thousands of Palestinian Arabs Hamas is now merging with the
tried to enter the country from “moderates” of Fatah with whom
Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and Judea Obama and others have been
and Samaria. Their declared dealing, it is useful to recall that
intention – announced weeks ago the Hamas Charter of August
on Facebook – was to return to 1988 declares that “nothing is
the lands from which they had Netanyahu, “their struggle is not denied, by Western governments loftier or deeper in nationalism
been expelled in 1948. The over the 1967 borders but over the and the mainstream media, for than waging Jihad against the
Facebook page made clear the very existence of Israel, which decades now. The Obama enemy and confronting him when
sinister intentions of Sunday’s they describe as a catastrophe that administration is just the latest he sets foot on the land of the
action: it was entitled “Third must be resolved. It is important U.S. administration to assume that Muslims.” When will this Jihad
Palestinian Intifada,” and after it that we look with open eyes at the Israel’s enemies can be negotiated end? The Hamas Charter quotes
posted numerous calls for reality and be aware of whom we with and placated with some Hasan al-Banna, the founder of
violence against Israel, Facebook are dealing with and what we are agreement. The fact that every the Muslim Brotherhood: “Israel
took it down – after it had gained dealing with.” such compromise has failed never will rise and will remain erect
350,000 members. Indeed. And what they are shakes this core belief, or leads until Islam eliminates it as it had
“The leaders of these violent dealing with is precisely what has policy analysts to realize that eliminated its predecessors.”
demonstrations,” explained Israeli been obscured, ignored, and Israel is dealing with an
Prime Minister Binyamin
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continued from page 71
Long running
Streets shut down for five hours pilots' pay dispute
could threaten
after Irish bomb alert closes The summer holiday
plans
Mall
Justin Davenport and Benedict level. There have been fears that Security expert Crispin Black last month at Trinity College
Dick Murray, Transport
Correspondent (Evening
Standard - News)
Moore-Bridger (Evening dissident republican groups might said London could have been Dublin, which is on the royal Submitted at 5/16/2011 7:49:22 AM
Standard - News) try to mount an attack on the chosen as a possible target itinerary. The threat of summer holiday
Submitted at 5/16/2011 6:29:53 AM mainland in advance of the because Dublin was seen as "too One was using a camcorder. On flight chaos returned today as
Justin Davenport and Benedict Queen's visit, which begins difficult" to attack. Thursday police held three Dublin Virgin Atlantic pilots announced
Moore-Bridger tomorrow. The Mall is where He said the Queen's visit had men in connection with "dissident that they are to ballot for strike
16 May 2011 Prince William drove new bride caused anger among republican and criminal groups". action in a long-running dispute
A major security alert was Catherine in his father's Aston extremists: "From what I have The Queen will visit Croke Park, over pay.
launched in London today after Martin after their wedding last seen going on in Dublin it is the scene of a massacre by British The first walkouts are threatened
Irish terrorists warned of a bomb month. going to be quite difficult to do troops in 1920, and attend a for July, at the start of the school
near Buckingham Palace. Police were called to reports of a anything there - it has been locked wreath-laying at the Garden of and summer holiday season. The
Streets around The Mall were b r e a k - i n n e a r t h e F o r e i g n down. Maybe they decided ... to Remembrance, which honours airline operates from Heathrow,
closed for more than five hours, Secretary's offices. When they do something in London to show those who died for Irish freedom. Manchester and Gatwick, with
on the eve of the Queen's historic were there an officer noticed a they are still there." She will also pay tribute to the key destinations including New
visit to Ireland. manhole cover was not se-cured The Irish Republic is staging its 49,400 Irish soldiers who died in York, Tokyo, Sydney and
Bomb disposal officers carried properly and raised the alarm. biggest ever security operation for the First World War. Nairobi, Orlando in Florida, and
out a controlled explosion on a Officers said nothing had been the first tour of Ireland by a This entry passed through the Jamaica.
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Scotland Yard sources confirmed The area near the Queen Victoria Dissidents have increased their You Don't Succeed - Four settle the dispute had been taking
a codeword was used in the memorial outside Buckingham activity. The Irish Army bomb Decades Of US-UK Attempts To place since last year and, despite
warning. The threat was for a Palace was open to tourists. The squad has been called out to 84 Topple Gadafi. the involvement of Acas, the
bomb to explode in London today, traditional Changing the Guard incidents this year, including a conciliation service, there had
but the exact time or place was did not take place. The Met said it pipe bomb in the city centre. Two been no agreement.
not specified. was working closely with dissidents, including a man with Virgin has offered four per cent
The terror threat status remained Transport and City of London alleged links to the 1998 Omagh this year with three per cent for
at "severe", the second highest police. bombing, were caught on CCTV each of the next two years. Pilots
are said to earn up to £85,000
whereas those at British Airways
get about £100,000.
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Reagan's words: "I find no carrier about 600 miles across that because I don't know the we can continue this, that there's But even if we just look at
national malaise. I find nothing areas of Iran and Oman and land facts. I've seen both sides. I've nothing wrong with the American consumption in terms of living the
wrong with the American people." in a desert, which we had already seen the explanations that were way of life. Are we particularly way we want versus the way we
We met at the Carter Center in explored. made by George H. W. Bush and bad as a nation at making the right need--
Atlanta, a circular set of buildings One of the helicopters, with no the Reagan people, and I've read decisions that are hard? I know. Now, Obama is
--round rooms, round hallways, reasonable explanation since then, Gary Sick's book and talked to Yes. We are bad about making beginning to see that some of
round columns--that makes a turned back to the aircraft carrier, him. I don't really know. difficult decisions that everybody these things need to be
rather ironic home for Carter and which left us seven. Another one The thing that I do know is that knows are right. I don't know how resurrected.
his library, given the dominant was forced down in the desert by after they [the Iranians] decided to to talk to you frankly without Right. But why won't he fall in
narrative that his presidency went an unexpected sandstorm, which hold the hostages until after the being so self-defensive, but of the that same trap? Why won't he
nowhere. When I walked into the left us six, which was fine. And so election, I did everything I could major decisions that I made as speak honestly?
office at exactly the scheduled our whole rescue operation to get them extracted, and the last president, I would say none of He hasn't done that yet.
meeting time--Carter has a assembled there in the desert. And three days I was president, I never them were politically attractive or But if he were to, wouldn't he be
notorious affection for punctuality then one of the helicopters went to bed at all. I stayed up the positive. I harassed the American undercut--?
--the old president was standing at developed a hydraulic leak and whole time in the Oval Office to people constantly about doing Yeah. Well, I don't know.
a tall window, his hands burrowed couldn't fly. So I had to abort the negotiate this extremely complex something about energy By an opposition that says we
in the pockets of brown wool rescue operation. We couldn't arrangement to get the hostages conservation, and we were can continue our present course
pants, as he looked out over a have afforded to extract five- removed and to deal with $12 remarkably successful in getting without making sacrifices?
small pond and grove at the center sixths of our people and leave one billion in Iranian cash and gold. laws passed and putting other I'm not sure. That wasn't the
of the compound. He wore a -sixth of our people in Iran to be And I completed everything by things in the hands of future reason for my failure to be
collared blue cotton shirt and sat executed, so we had to terminate six o'clock on the morning that I presidents. reelected. It was a relatively
on a hand-carved double rocker as the exercise. was supposed to go out of office. Reagan, unfortunately, reversed minor position. The main reason
we spoke. Across from us was a So it was not sending a large All the hostages were transferred those energy conservation was, we didn't have the hostages
full-size replica of the intricately enough squad of helicopters? to airplanes and they were waiting measures over which the president back. And the Democratic Party
carved Kennedy desk from the If I'd sent one more helicopter, in the airplanes. I knew this--so has a lot of control, like was split, and Iraq attacked Iran
Oval Office. there's no doubt in my mind we they were ready to take off--and I mandatory efficiency of and cut off about 20 percent of the
It looks a bit out of place in would have had a successful went to the reviewing stand when automobiles and the allocation of world's oil supply, which created
Carter's quaint and tranquil office, operation. The Iranians never Reagan became president. Five support for renewable energy a 21 percent inflation rate in
perhaps in the same way Carter knew we were there until after we minutes after he was president, sources, photovoltaic cells, Europe. Well, Kennedy split the
was seemed a bit out of place all left. But we would have had the planes took off. They could windmills. He reversed all that Democratic Party so that I lost by
where the original desk stood. the hostages rescued, I would have left three or four hours because his premise was that 10 percent of the Democratic
What's the single decision you probably have been reelected, and earlier. America was self-sufficient, that vote. But I have always felt that I
made as president that you most so forth. So that was a bit of a But what, if any, influence was there was no shortage of energy. didn't need to be justified, to
regret? turning point. used on the Ayatollah to wait until We had a right to use what we answer your first question.
I would say the hostage rescue Gary Sick, your national security I was out of office, I don't know. wanted--not what we needed, but I never have felt that I made a
effort in Iran in April of 1980. It advisor for the Middle East, and a When you look back at the Crisis what we wanted--and we mistake in going to the American
was a perfectly planned, highly number of others have written of Confidence speech, do you feel shouldn't be insinuating that our people and saying, "This is what
secret, somewhat complex convincingly that Reagan's vindicated? And secondly, it country was so weak that we must do to show our resolve
procedure that everybody agreed campaign staff were conspiring seems to me that in 1980, voters Americans had to make a sacrifice and we're capable of doing it,"
to do. And in order to extract all against you to keep the hostages made a choice between your to face the future. And that with the so-called malaise speech,
of the hostages plus all the rescue held for fear you'd win reelection assessment that outlined making attitude was totally different from which was a phrase that you know
team from Iran, we had to have if they were released. Do you sacrifice and moving this nation what I had, and it was pretty well I never used. I never had any
six functioning helicopters. So I believe that? Does that resonate down one path toward energy adopted by Reagan's successors. I doubt about the accuracy of that
ordered eight helicopters and two with you? independence and living more think that some of these things are JIMMY page 84
of them had to fly from an aircraft I never have taken a position on humbly, and another path that said coming back to haunt us.
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Gingrich's current public-relations Future spends a lot on overhead, worries. His three marriages will attitude is much preferable to the employees being made into
and political empire and his the group has cultivated hundreds also come up. His tendencies to mindset articulated by the naked criminals for doing their jobs, I
GOPAC operation, of course. The of thousands of small donors, a speak before thinking and to play scanner company. "Now they will am heartened to see a state
most important is that Gingrich pool that any presidential the professor will not help. have to hand search more people," government pushing back against
has, until now, not been holding campaign would envy. Gingrich's strengths as a coach a Rapiscan Systems executive told the federal bureaucracy's
or seeking public office, Even so, Gingrich's official and team leader are "not the same the Huffington Post. "Ninety-five- procedures, even if the passage of
insulating him from conflict-of- candidacy changes everything. skill set you need to be a unifying plus percent of people would the bill would result in litigation
interest allegations, noted John J. Though campaign fundraising is figure as president of the United rather be scanned than go through that they'd almost certainly lose.
Pitney Jr., a politics professor at turning into something of a free- States," his former chief of staff, a pat down." These challenges in Washington,
Claremont McKenna College. for-all, the ban on soft Frank Gregorsky noted. Gingrich So those are the only conceivable D.C., and Austin are reminders
Republican primary voters are (unregulated) money remains in may well be a new man. But when choices now? Another group of that opposing intrusive
not likely to care much about place. Gingrich may no longer it comes to political money, the Republicans in Texas would beg government is possible, even
arcane political-money raise and spend money through new Newt Gingrich looks an to differ: when counter-terrorism efforts are
controversies. And Gingrich, his American Solutions 527, said awful lot like the old one. The Texas House of implicated. I can't say that this is
having pioneered the use of Paul S. Ryan, associate legal Image credit: Jonathan Ernst/ Representatives late on Thursday the most vital war on terrorism
secretive, irregular committees for counsel with the Campaign Legal Reuters approved a bill that would make excess to remedy, or that I trust
political purposes, is now in good Center. And Gingrich's reputation Drop-down image credit: Reuters invasive pat-downs at Texas the GOP to safeguard civil
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undone, so I'm not agreeing with with Power: What Great
that premise of yours. Presidents and Prime Ministers
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