Week of December 15, 2007
Change of strategy - American commanders in Iraq decide to keep their forces
concentrated in Baghdad when the buildup strategy ends next year.
President Pervez Musharraf lifts a 6-week-old state of emergency under which
he had suspended Pakistan’s constitution and cracked down on the opposition.
The Federal Reserve proposes new mortgage lending rules to protect consumers
against fraud and deception - including greater disclosure.
A fire breaks out in the office of Dick
Cheney at the Eisenhower Executive
Office Building next door to the White
House. The fire broke out in an
electrical panel. The building was
evacuated and about 1,000
employees had to leave for the day.
Seeing his poll numbers slipping -
Rudy Giuliani has scaled back and is
spending more time in New
Hampshire and waging a campaign in Iowa.
President Bush says that he did not know about two CIA interrogation videotapes
until the spy agency’s director recently told him and said he would defer
judgment about their destruction until administration officials completed their
investigations.
Ticketmaster plans to launch a website next year to resell tickets to pro football
games - the latest push by the even ticketing company into the lucrative
secondary ticket market. It’ll guarantee those tickets.
Technology -
Microsoft Corp wins the right to deliver advertising on Viacom’s network of
websites for the next five years.
Pressured by a lawsuit, Internet social network Facebook Inc. will adopt
measures to prevent its 58 million members from sending text messages to
recycled cellphone numbers.
Entertainment news -
Sacha Baron Cohen told the London Daily Telegraph that he is retiring his Borat
and Ali G. rapper character.
