Poder 360

The night of September 9 appeared to fulfill all the promise underlying NBC Universal's ambitious $2.7 billion acquisition in 2001 of Telemundo, the second-largest Spanish language television network in the U.S. On that night, the NBC sibling carried President Obama's important healthcare address to a joint session of Congress-on a slight delay to allow for dubbing into Spanish-followed by its highest-rated program ever, which reached more than 5 million viewers.

Californians never tire of pointing out that if their state were a separate country, it would rank among the 10 largest economies of the world. True, but it would also vie with the likes of Argentina to sit atop the ranks of the fiscally reckless. The Golden State can't seem to stay in the black, and in the latest of its perennial financial crises, the state government had to issue IOUs in the first days of July because the cash drawer was empty. Gov.