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DALLAS AP — Six years after entering the NFL as the third player taken in the draft, Vince Young finds himself without a team and with just a fraction of the money he received from a contract that guaranteed him $26 million.
via QB Vince Young out of the game and out of money – Houston Chronicle.
The Romney campaign does not dispute that Mitt Romney is a neoconservative, it just refuses to say the word neoconservative.“His embrace of American values and interests and his call for American leadership abroad throughout this campaign is indicative of a philosophy of peace through strength,†Alex Wong, the campaign’s foreign policy director, said in an interview.
via Romney’s foreign policy: An ideology that dare not speak its name – The Washington Post.
“We probably did 20 stories on the intelligence failures†leading to the terrorist attacks, she said.Ms. Abramson added, “I can’t say with authority that there is nothing new in it.†But if there were an important nugget of news, she said, The Times would follow up on it.Eric Schmitt, who covers national security, and with Thom Shanker, is the co-author of “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda,†agreed.“Kurt’s a great reporter, and each of these books adds to the body of literature,†Mr. Schmitt said. “You can always keep peeling back the layers of the onion.â€
The speech came, by and large, as a disappointment to political journalists and other campaign junkies. We have heard almost all of it before. The speech was probably aimed at undecided voters, who spend almost no time following politics. They received the paint-by-numbers outline of the election choice.
via A Transformed Obama Is a Fighter, Not a Dreamer — Daily Intel.
Apple Inc. (AAPL) engineers have been working since 2005 to reinvent TV viewing. Designing the gadget may prove easy compared with convincing media and cable companies to loosen their grip on the television industry.
This battle is nothing like Apple’s previous forays into the music and mobile phone spheres, when the maker of iPods and iPhones negotiated with weakened record labels and a fractured wireless industry. Now the stakes are even higher and the competition tougher.
via Apple TV No IPhone as Talks Bog Down With Media Companies – Bloomberg.
Speed Read: Juiciest Bits From Bob Woodward’s Book ‘Price of Politics’Sep 5, 2012 8:35 PM EDTHow exactly did the nation’s debt crisis play out behind closed doors? From Obama ‘chomping on Nicorette’ to Biden as the GOP ‘whisperer’ and Ryan’s anger at the president, the highlights of Bob Woodward’s The Price of Politics, out Sept. 11.
via Speed Read: Juiciest Bits From Bob Woodward’s Book ‘Price of Politics’ – The Daily Beast.
(Reuters) – Cambodia will deport a Swedish co-founder of Pirate Bay, one of the world’s biggest free file-sharing websites, who was convicted and sentenced to prison in Sweden for breaching copyright laws, a police official said on Tuesday.
via Cambodia to deport Pirate Bay co-founder sought by Sweden | Reuters.
BEIJING — A barrage of harsh messages in China’s official news media awaited Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her scheduled arrival here Tuesday evening, for talks that will focus on the competition between China and the United States in the Asia-Pacific region.A certain amount of parrying with senior American officials is expected on such occasions, but the editorials, articles and comments by Chinese analysts contained unusual bite. Some of them were about Mrs. Clinton personally, while others were more broadly focused on the Obama administration’s policies.“The United States should stop its role as a sneaky troublemaker sitting behind some nations in the region and pulling strings,†a writer specializing in foreign policy said in Xinhua, the state-run news service.
via A Harsh Reception for Clinton in China’s State Media – NYTimes.com.
Mr. Sley says there is only one other major marketer of organic cigarettes: Natural American Spirit, a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, one of the largest tobacco companies and the maker of Camel, Salem and many other major brands. As Mr. Sley correctly points out, this gives American Spirit less credibility as a truly independent brand, which is probably important to the target customer.
via Pitching an Organic Cigarette for Hipsters – NYTimes.com.