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  • Economy Briefs

    Fewer people purchased previously occupied homes in April, a troubling sign that the weak housing market remains a drag on the economy.


  • Comcast apologizes to nonprofit for cutting funds

    Comcast has apologized to a Seattle nonprofit called Reel Grrls after an executive told the organization that Comcast would no longer fund it because of its Twitter post questioning Comcast's hiring of a member of the Federal Communications Commission.


  • NBC picks up 12 new series for next season

    NBC is betting on the Playboy club, Chelsea Handler and a raft of romantic comedies among the dozen new series it has ordered in its latest attempt to come back from a long slump that has made it television's fourth-place broadcast network.


  • Robert Iger

    CEOs rake in big bucks again

    In the boardroom, it's as if the Great Recession never happened. CEOs at the nation's largest companies were paid better last year than they were in 2007, when the economy was booming, the stock market set a record high and unemployment was roughly half what it is today.


  • Coach Gary Williams enters the Comcast Center at the University of Maryland in College Park on Friday, May 6, 2011 for a press conference to officially announce his retirement after a 33-year career, 22 of which have been at the University of Maryland. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    DALY: Gary Williams

    To understand the hold Gary Williams has on Maryland basketball fans – and why so many of them turned out at Comcast Center on Friday to pay him homage – you have to go back to the beginning. You have to go back to 1989.


  • Gary Williams waves to the crowd of University of Maryland students and alumni in the audience at the Comcast Center in College Park, Md., on Friday, May 6, 2011, the day that, after a 33-year career, 22 of which have been at the University of Maryland, Williams officially announced his retirement. (...)

    Gary Williams leaves Maryland on own terms after 22 years

    Gary Williams, like so many other coaches, kept an eye on others in his profession for a variety of reasons.


  • **FILE** Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski (Associated Press)

    FCC chief, GOP spar on 'net neutrality'

    Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Wednesday offered a strong defense of his agency's new Internet traffic regulations in the face of questioning from skeptical Republican lawmakers.


  • 'IT'S THE RIGHT TIME': Gary Williams' firebrand style of coaching defined Maryland basketball since he arrived in College Park in 1989. (The Washington Times)

    Maryland coach Williams retiring after 22 seasons

    Maryland basketball coach Gary Williams is retiring after 22 seasons, the school said Thursday.


  • Model Petra Nemcova and her partner, Dmitry Chaplin, were eliminated from ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" on Tuesday. The show inspired Miss Nemcova to start holding dance-a-thons as fundraisers for her charity, the Happy Hearts Fund. (Associated Press)

    Tuning In to TV

    She was praised as a "golden goddess" on Monday, but now Petra Nemcova is a "Dancing With the Stars" reject.


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