The Toronto Globe and Main is reporting that it was the Clinton campaign and not Obama’s which contacted the Canadian diplomats assuring them that her NAFTA stance was more of a political posturing. It will be interesting to see how the ignorant US media plays this out!

The news agency quoted that source as saying that Mr. Brodie said that someone from Ms. Clinton’s campaign called and was “telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt.”

Harvard Business School puts together a helpful set of articles from its archives to help you shape up your start up business. You can find answers to the following questions:

- Should I keep control of my company?
- How do I turn potential into profit?
- How can a resource-challenged start-up grow?
- What legal mistakes should I watch out for in starting a new company?

A court in Dubai has sentenced 38 Indian construction workers to six months in prison, and deportation after that, for their part in the workers protest which demanded for higher wages and better living condition. Since the workers have been in prison for over four months, they are expected to be released and deported on March 18th.

“Some Indian workers are paid as little as $160 a month for a six or seven-day week,” she says, “whereas the average national is paid seven times as much.”

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Forms, an excellent new feature added to Google Docs. Using Google Docs Spreadsheet, you can create a form which can either be mailed out to anyone or put on a web page. The responses are captured in the spreadsheet. There is even an iGoogle gadget to keep tabs of your forms.

Here is an example form: You can view the results here

A neat little application for searching flickr images based on each word in a phrase. If you are not satisfied with the initial selection, then Phrasr allows you to pick an image of your choice to go with the word. If you like what you have created, share it with everyone in the archives, by publishing it.