With plenty of help from Pittsburgh, Butler found another way to pull off a stunning upset in the NCAA tournament. Matt Howard made one free throw with 0.8 seconds left to cap a wild final sequence, and No. 8 Butler shocked the top-seeded Panthers 71-70 tonight to advance to…
Continue reading …As reported earlier today, Moammar Gadhafi sent a letter to Barack Obama, and another to Nicolas Sarkozy, David Cameron, and UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon. AP has excerpts, and they’re what you’d expect—and yet somehow, still surprisingly bizarre: Addressed to Obama (or, in Gadhafi’s words, “our son, the honorable Barack…
Continue reading …Republicans might have fared better in 2008 if Sarah Palin was atop the ticket—suggests Sarah Palin. While speaking today at the India Today Conclave, the former Alaska governor was asked why Republicans couldn’t defeat Barack Obama in the election, reports the Hill . She tipped her hat to Obama’s strong…
Continue reading …Libya has quickly condemned the attacks by the US and other nations as a “barbaric aggression” that has wounded a “large number of civilians” and caused heavy damage, reports the Times of India . “The pretext that this aggression is designed to protect civilians is contradicted by what has happened on…
Continue reading …The latest news from Japan’s Fukushima Dia-ichi plant has a rare note of optimism—tempered with plenty of don’t-get-your-hopes-up-too-high sentiment. The biggest bright spot is that workers have apparently restored power to the cooling systems of two reactors, units 5 and 6, reports the Wall Street Journal . Those units posed…
Continue reading …Don’t look now, but another tech bubble is upon us. Signs “have been appearing over the last year—seed and late-stage valuations are rapidly inflating, hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest since the last bubble and investors are starting to openly wonder how this one will end,” writes…
Continue reading …The online city-planning game CityVille is meant for “casual gamers,” and there are plenty of them: 92 million active monthly users, to be exact. But such simple gameplay and basic graphics would turn off any sophisticated player, right? Wrong—as JP Mangalindan, writing in Fortune , found out. A lifelong “hardcore…
Continue reading …SAT chief Laurence Bunin says students should have been able to answer a controversial essay question on reality TV even if they’d never heard of Snooki or Randy Jackson. And that’s the point critics are missing, he argues in the Daily Beast . They “confuse the literal topic with the task…
Continue reading …A French fighter jet has made the first strike against pro-Gadhafi forces by destroying a military vehicle—probably a tank—near Benghazi, reports the BBC . So far, France is leading the way in the international effort, with about 20 planes patrolling above the entire country. Its initial air sorties apparently…
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