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Apple Races to Strike iPad Content Deals

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Yukari Iwatani Kane, Sam Schechner - Mar. 19 (News Report) - Apple is still working to secure content for the iPad with just weeks to go before the tablet computer's release, said people familiar with the matter, as the company tempers some of its initial ambitions for the much-hyped device.

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Alex J. Pollock: Why Canada Avoided a Mortgage Meltdown

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Alex J. Pollock - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - It has high home ownership rates but fewer housing subsidies.

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Madoff Was Beaten in Prison

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Dionne Searcey, Amir Efrati - Mar. 18 (News Report) - The jailed financier was assaulted by another inmate in December, according to three people familiar with the matter.

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Slaughter House Rules

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - How Democrats may 'deem' ObamaCare into law, without voting.

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Entrepreneurs Question Value of Social Media - WSJ.com

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:30:34 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Sarah E. Needleman - Mar. 16 (News Report) - But Mr. AvRutick's experience may be the exception, rather than the norm. In its short lifetime, social media—services like Facebook and Twitter—have become popular marketing tools for small firms due to the low cost and easy-to-use format. Some entrepreneurs say they're highly effective, but new evidence suggests otherwise.

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Axelrod: Health Care Effort 'A Struggle'

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Janet Adamy, Greg Hitt - Mar. 15 (News Report) - White House adviser David Axelrod conceded that efforts to secure enough support to pass the party's health-care bill was proving "a struggle," but voiced confidence that Democrats would ultimately get enough votes.

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The Cost-Control Illusion

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - Mar. 13 (Opinion) - Above all other reasons, voters who oppose ObamaCare cite their fear over costs: They think it will cause their insurance premiums to soar and result in far higher taxes to fund a vast new entitlement. The public is right on both counts, which is why White House smokejumpers have been dispatched to put out this fire as the final votes approach.

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UPDATE:IfW Institute:German Economy To Recover Only Moderately - WSJ.com

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Andrea Thomas - Mar. 11 (News Analysis) - The German economy is set to recover moderately this year and next but Europe's largest economy isn't out of the woods yet, the IfW institute, one of Germany's main economic think-tanks, predicted Thursday, as it cut its 2011 forecast for German growth.

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Why I Changed My Mind About School Reform

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Diane Ravitch - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - ... accountability turned into a nightmare for American schools, producing graduates who were drilled regularly on the basic skills but were often ignorant about almost everything else. Colleges continued to complain about the poor preparation of entering students, who not only had meager knowledge of the world but still required remediation in basic skills. This was not my vision of good education.

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NZ Dollar Up Late On Risk Appetite, Positive Economic Data - WSJ.com

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:09:02 -0800

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'They Need to Be Liberated From Their God'

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Matthew Kaminski - Mar. 06 (Interview) - The 'Son of Hamas' author on his conversion to Christianity, spying for Israel, and shaming his family.

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Democrats Revolt Over Energy Policy

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Rebecca Smith, Stephen Power - Mar. 05 (News Report) - Obama's energy strategy came under attack on several fronts, including its decision to drop plans for a nuclear-waste site in Nevada.

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Another Step Forward for Iraq

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Fouad Ajami - Mar. 03 (Opinion) - A democratic country is emerging that answers neither to Sunni Arab states nor Iranians.

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Greece Bailout Plan Takes Shape

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Carrick Mollenkamp, Costas Paris, Marcus Walker - Mar. 01 (News) - A plan led by Germany and France to bail out Greece with as much as €30 billion ($41 billion) in aid began to take shape amid intense and risky jockeying between Athens and Berlin over timing and terms.

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Stephens: How Milton Friedman Saved Chile

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Stephens, Bret - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Milton Friedman gave Chileans the intellectual wherewithal first to survive the quake, and now to build their lives anew.

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Chile Suffers Massive Earthquake

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Jeff Fick, George Seal, Carolina Pica, Paulo Prada - Feb. 27 (News Report) - An 8.8 magnitude quake off the Chilean coast generated a tsunami with devastating potential. Eleven aftershocks have been reported, as well as at least 122 deaths. Tsunami alerts are issued for a wide area.

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Bill Frist: A Historic and Dangerous Senate Mistake

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Bill Frist - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - Using 'reconciliation' to ram through health reform would only deepen partisan passions.

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Cogan, Hubbard, and Kessler: A Better Way to Reform Health Care

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By John F. Cogan, Glenn Hubbard, Daniel Kessler - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - The critical problem is rising costs. The solution is more competition and greater individual control over health spending. Here's how.

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Capture Raises Hopes of Pakistan Shift

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Zahid Hussain, Siobhan Gorman - Feb. 24 (News Analysis) - The capture of a second high-level leader of the Afghan Taliban by Pakistani authorities has raised the prospect that Pakistan's powerful ISI intelligence agency, long accused by the U.S. of Islamist ties, has begun to turn on an organization it once cultivated.

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ObamaCare at Ramming Speed

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - The White House shows it has no interest in compromise.

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Climate Change and Open Science

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By L. Gordon Crovitz - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - 'Unequivocal." That's quite a claim in this skeptical era, so it's been enlightening to watch the unraveling of the absolute certainty of global warming caused by man. Now even authors of the 2007 United Nations report that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal" have backed off its key assumptions and dire warnings. Science is having its Walter Cronkite moment.

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IRS Is a Likely Target in Austin Plane Crash

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Russell Gold, Bob Sechler, Evan Perez - Feb. 19 (News Report) - The pilot of a small plane that slammed into a building here may have targeted the offices of the Internal Revenue Service after a tax dispute.

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Martin Feldstein: How Obama Should Shrink His Deficit

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Martin Feldstein - Feb. 19 (Opinion) - For one thing, cut the remaining 'stimulus' spending.

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Pilot Possibly Angered by Contract-Worker Tax Issue

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Martin Vaughan - Feb. 19 (News Report) - Andrew Joseph Stack, identified as the pilot of a plane that slammed into an Austin, Texas, Internal Revenue Service office Thursday, apparently took issue with the agency in the 1980s over the proper tax treatment of independent contractors--a topic that to this day remains a sore point between the IRS and businesses.

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Goldman and Greece: What the Heck are Currency Swaps?

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Matt Phillips - Feb. 17 (News Analysis) - ... essentially, it seems that the whole currency swaps issue comes down to an accounting game for governments. As the EU Observer points out — (ht: ClusterStock) — that the eurozone is widening its inquiry into the use of currency swaps:

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