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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Cheat Sheet - Europe Picks a Fight With Google

Today: Olympia Snowe Quit Senate to Protest GOP Agenda, GOP Frontrunners May Split Michigan, 2 NATO Troops Dead in Afghanistan
The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet: Morning

March 01, 2012
BATTLE

Google is forging ahead with plans to implement its streamlined privacy plan today, whether a certain continent likes it or not. A French data watchdog agency has sent the search giant a letter protesting that the plan—which will simplify about 60 different privacy policies into one—may violate their law. The new rules will allow Google to pool data among services like YouTube and Gmail in order to better attract advertisers.

OUT

Maine moderate Olympia Snowe's resignation comes just as the GOP is poised to push the Blunt amendment, a bill that would allow employers to withhold insurance coverage for any health-care service that violates their "religious beliefs and moral convictions." Friends and colleagues tell The Daily Beast's Eleanor Clift the lawmaker finally got "sick and tired" of her party's radical agenda.

HALF AND HALF

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum may just have to learn to share. Based on the way the vote went in Tuesday night's Michigan primary, the Republicans are likely to split on the state's 30 delegates. The final delegate is still undecided because Michigan, Romney's boyhood home state, awards its delegates on the basis of each candidate's performance in the state's 14 congressional districts. The winner does not take all. So while Romney's camp was quick to crow over its narrow Michigan win, Team Santorum has come out to say that a closer look reveals that their candidate is really the one that deserves the laurels, with Santorum calling his Michigan performance "a huge win" at a Tennessee campaign stop Wednesday.

CASUALTIES

Two NATO troops were killed in what may be the latest incident involving an Afghan serviceman—or insurgent masquerading as one—shooting NATO soldiers. The international peacekeepers were serving in southern Afghanistan Thursday when two other men, one of whom may have been an Afghan soldier, opened fire on them. In the past two weeks, NATO has lost six soldiers in similar incidents involving persons in the uniforms of the Afghan military or police force.

FUEL

Tensions between the West and countries like Syria and Iran may conceivably hike gas prices up to $5 a gallon, especially as the summer months loom and Americans plan getaways. According to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report, gas prices—at a current national average of $3.73 per gallon—are breaking former winter records. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told members of the House of Representatives that rising oil prices would continue to affect Americans' spending habits. On the other hand, experts say that a slackening of Middle East tensions could ease fears and cause prices to fall, with the potential for gas prices to drop by as much as 50 cents a gallon.


CRISIS
U.N. to Send New Envoy to Syria
Former secretary-general Kofi Annan.
TV
Meet the Iranian Kardashians
Shahs of Sunset out to change perceptions.
BALANCE
Bank of America Plans Monthly Fees
As banks search for new revenue.
YIKES
Giant Jurassic Fleas Found in China
Almost an inch in length.
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