Alternate History

Icahn to Yahoo board: Sell to Microsoft or leave (AP via Yahoo! News)

16 May 2008

Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by activist investor Carl Icahn.

The Next Level: 'Turning Point' is mediocre (The Oklahoman)

16 May 2008

An alternate World War II is the starting point for "Turning Point: Fall of Liberty,� a game that

Documents on Jackie Robinson's court-martial up for auction (Los Angeles Daily News)

16 May 2008

It sounds, at first, like the premise to a Philip Roth novel. A strange, alternate reality where one key event, one key decision goes another way and subsequent history, as we know it, is forever altered.