Perhaps it is because the ouster of Moammar Gaddafi will come months after the fall of Tunisia’s Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak , or maybe it is fatigue generated by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the Libyan revolution seems subject to a higher standard of success than the uprisings that preceded it. A curious conventional wisdom has emerged in the commentary on Libya’s revolutionaries. “We don’t know who these people are or what comes next,” the popular reasoning goes, “so we can’t let ourselves be too enthusiastic about them, their goals or their achievements.” Read full article > >

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Amazon moved aggressively to fulfill its new ambition to publish books as well as sell them, announcing that it had signed Timothy Ferriss, the popular self-help guru.

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T-Mobile customers will be able to use iPhones, as Apple began selling unlocked models of the popular smartphone online Tuesday. The phones, which require micro-SIM cards, are compatible with both AT&T and T-Mobile networks. Before T-Mobile users…

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Actor and singer Roy Skelton, best known for voicing puppets George and Zippy in the popular children’s programme Rainbow, dies aged 79.

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Best-selling author Jennifer Worth, who wrote the popular Call the Midwife trilogy, dies aged 75.

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The wife of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said she is closing down her popular French blog.

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Engaged: Policy analyst Anna Russell , 28, and teacher Daniel Zielaski , 27, who are famous for . . . meeting through the Washington Post Magazine’s “Date Lab.” Editors matched them up, noting that they’re both marathoners, and a Monday night fix-up date last May at Oya turned into late-night drinks at Proof, which led to plans to go running together. A year later, Zielaski popped the question on the Georgetown waterfront, midway through a 10-mile run. No wedding date yet, but probably next summer. They’re believed to be the third couple engaged through the popular weekly matchmaking column. (Any others out there with good news to report? Fill us in: reliablesource@washpost.com) Read full article > >

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The two best things about Trey McIntyre Project: the dancers’ easy facility with all kinds of rebounding, whip-snapping moves — the bigger the better — and the music. Not to be discounted are the satisfactions of an evening spent with early jazz from New Orleans’s Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the gentle rhythms and unsparing revelations of Roy Orbison. For most of the audience that filled Sidney Harman Hall on Friday night for McIntyre’s program, that combination was more than enough. There were rapturous ovations for every piece, and no wonder. McIntyre, the 6-foot-6 former ballet dancer and crackerjack choreographer of the popular song, seems to attract an ardent following wherever he goes — even when it’s far off the beaten path for an artist in the niche world of dance. In 2008, he moved his contemporary dance company to Boise, Idaho, which has proved to be a fertile home base for bustling seasons of national and international tours. Read full article > >

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Less than a month after Sony’s security breach that revealed personal information from some 100 million PlayStation user accounts, the company is relaunching the popular videogame network. Service restoration will begin on Sunday in the U.S., Europe,…

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NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp . said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy the popular Internet telephone service Skype SA for $8.5 billion in the biggest deal in the software maker’s 36-year history. Buying Skype would give Microsoft a potentially valuable communications tool as it tries to become a bigger force on the Internet and in the increasingly important smartphone market. Microsoft said it will marry Skype’s functions to its Xbox game console , Outlook email program and Windows smartphones. The company said it will continue to support Skype on other software platforms. Read full article > >

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Osama bin Laden may have hated America, but he loved its soft drinks: Local shopkeepers say that people from Bin Laden’s compound regularly bought Pepsi, Coke, and other popular brands in bulk. A shopkeeper in the area was “curious” why they bought…

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By Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Twitter is in talks to buy TweetDeck, the popular Web and mobile app generally associated with Twitter power users.

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DETROIT — Under pressure from government safety regulators, Ford Motor Co. is expanding a recall of the popular F-150 pickup truck to include nearly 1.2 million vehicles that may have defective air bags.

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Glenn Beck will end his popular and often controversial daily program on the Fox News Channel later this year, Fox News and Beck’s production company said Wednesday.

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Why Democrats should not be divided on whether to tackle the popular program.

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The pro-Social Security case for Social Security reform