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...until the company's stock plunged and two key business partners--Altavista and Kozmo--broke ranks that DoubleClick finally backed down. "I made a mistake," said CEO Kevin O'Connor, whose $1.7 billion purchase last fall of tracking data from Abacus Direct alerted privacy watchdogs that something was afoot...
Something more subtle is afoot elsewhere on the traditional right. Pentecostalism, while it shares the Baptists' scriptural conservatism, relies heavily on the workings of the Holy Ghost, which are as likely to touch a woman as a man. Women seldom preach unaided, but Jim and Tammy-style co-pastors are common. And while megachurches may seem the creatures of their high-powered male senior ministers, the bulk of their person-to-person spiritual business is done not on supercrowded Sundays but in dozens of small weekday prayer, study or self-help groups--often led by lay women...
Castro is betting that a serious antiembargo movement is afoot--and, for once, he's right. The SmithKline deal marks "a significant moment for U.S. companies who want opportunities in Cuba," says John Kavulich, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council in New York. It also reflects the sentiment of U.S. politicians and business leaders--not to mention lovers of Cuba's famed cigars--who are mounting a campaign to dismantle Washington's economic sanctions against Cuba. They're convinced that the embargo will never make Castro cry uncle, a point he will drive home this week...
...leading the way in education these days? With Texas Governor George W. Bush presiding over one of the greatest turnarounds in state education history and the Republicans in the Senate granting $300 million more for education in the budget than Clinton asked for, there certainly seems to be change afoot...
...that book is only the opening chapter of a story that has become one of the most bizarre and surreal in the annals of publishing. Muggles, i.e., those who are unaware of all the wizardry afoot in the world around them, will need a brief recap if they're ever to catch...