Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.

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Google is certainly helping Boingo by providing a marquee customer reference and drawing media attention to the service.

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Bill Brown from Duke University, law professor and expert in financial services, told the BBC's World Service that this latest settlement with Fannie Mae was drawing a line under the whole subprime mortgage-backed securities saga.

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With the Iraq war over and the war in Afghanistan drawing to a close, more than one million service members are projected to leave the military in the next several years and transition to civilian life.

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Drawing them into the mainstream of Jewish society through military or national service, and into work through the gradual withdrawal of welfare payments, should be a priority.

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