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Nancy Pelosi is a bit like Britain's Margaret Thatcher in reverse. Mrs. T. was tough and steely in her public role as prime minister, but womanly, flirtatious, even gossipy, in private. (One of her cabinet members once told me he harbored erotic thoughts about Maggie as she walked past him, trailing a 'whiff of Chanel.') In Pelosi's case, it's the other way around.

superglaze writes 'Jon von Tetzchner, Opera's CEO, has claimed that the open standards in HTML 5 will make it unnecessary to deliver rich media content using the proprietary Flash. ''You can do most things with web standards today,' von Tetzchner said. 'In some ways, you may say you don't need Flash.' Von Tetzchner added that his comments were not about 'killing' Flash. 'I like Adobe — they're a nice company,' he said. 'I think Flash will be around for a very, very long time, but I think it's natural that web standards also evolve to be richer. You can then choose whether you'd like [to deliver rich media content] through web standards or whether you'd like to use Flash.''' of this story at Slashdot.

Government defies calls for halt to fighting and UN accusations of bloodbathThe violence in Sri Lanka was close to a bloody conclusion last night as the country's armed forces sought to destroy the last pocket of Tamil Tiger fighters in defiance of international pleas for a halt to the fighting and accusations from the UN that they had triggered a bloodbath.While leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were reported to be preparing to kill themselves rather than be captured, explosions reverberated around the tiny coastal strip where as many as 80,000 civilians remained trapped alongside the cornered rebels.Humanitarian aid workers were in despair as sporadic reports filtered out of thousands of civilians killed inside the 'no fire zone', the government-designated haven where non-combatants were supposed to be able to escape the fighting.'It is hard to think of a worse place on earth to be right now than on that stretch of beach,' said James Elder, the Unicef spokesman in Sri L

Rachel Alexandra kept a low profile at Pimlico yesterday morning, tucked away in her stall after being walked around the shedrow of the Preakness Stakes Barn at the crack of dawn. The 8-5 morning-line favorite to beat the boys in tomorrow's Preakness Stakes came out of hiding before yesterday afternoon's fourth race to take a tour of the paddock and get acquainted with her new surroundings....

Video game software sales fell 23 percent in April, year over year, while hardware sales declined 8 percent, as players set aside their game controllers in order to save cash in the midst of a recession, according to research company NPD Group. Microsoft, Sony and other major IT companies have seen their bottom lines affected by the decline. - Sales of video game software declined 23 percent in April from the same period in 2008, while video game hardware sales declined around 8 percent, according to research company NPD Group. Even though those numbers indicate that players are setting aside their Wii controllers and letting their ...

The rapper despises firearms and doesn?t want to be around them after two of his uncles committed suicide and his best friend, rapper Proof, was shot dead.

The most active standards work in cloud computing is not actually around image portability or mobility, but in allowing cloud operations tools to interface with multiple public and private clouds.

WASHINGTON - The new swine flu virus is spreading rapidly around the United States, and more than half of the states are reporting unusually high levels of flulike illness at a time of year when the respiratory disease usually disappears, federal health officials said yesterday.

An "anxious" Manny Ramirez apologized to his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates yesterday, the first time he was around the club since being suspended for 50 games for using a banned substance.

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