The chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, hitherto a seriously hyper-active type, needed a break from using fiscal policy to mend every last thing in the economy that does not work exactly as he thinks it should, and so did the country.

ECONOMIST: Britain has a two-faced chancellor

We've received official word from the good folks at Sprint that the Treo Pro wasn't supposed to be posted today, hence the unceremonious removal of every last trace of the thing within hours of its unveiling.

ENGADGET: Sprint Treo Pro officially unavailable again -- for now

But every time it announces the next big thing, the last big thing gets way cheaper before being gradually phased out.

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Backing away from squeezing every last nanogram of value out of human attention might not be such a bad thing.

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The whole changing-money-every-time-you-cross-the-border thing was so last century.

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The last thing anyone needs is an endless stream of Tweets from you updated every five minutes on their Twitter dash.

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Mr. MAINA KIAI (Chairman, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights): The thing that strikes me throughout these last few weeks is the rush to claim victimhood on every site and that's a very dangerous, very, very dangerous trend.

NPR: Kenya's Parliament to Convene First Meeting

"The last thing anyone in a position like mine wants to do is negatively impact the company they work every day to promote, " said Mr. Welts, now president and chief operating officer of the Golden State Warriors.

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