November 21, 2012

While lawmakers are debating the question of how much government we can afford, they have ignored the broader question of how much government we need.

Hewlett-Packard contends that Autonomy, the British software firm it acquired for $10 billion last year, misclassified revenue, including sales of hardware with sales of software licenses.

Some of the country’s retailers said they would move up sales to Thanksgiving Day, but stores in some New England states, adhering to those states’ “blue laws,” will be closed Thursday.

This week, officials closed all evacuation centers but two on Staten Island. Now they plan to rely solely on hotels, even as they brace for new arrivals in winter.

Under a truce announced by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Egyptian foreign minister, Israel and Hamas agreed to end all hostilities. But it was unclear how it would be enforced.