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...Powells and the Rices and the laid-back Bush crew, the angriest half of the Republican party does appear to be getting what it wants worst: social conservatives at key social-policy posts like AG and HHS. And if Bush wants to keep Americans and the media focused on other things - education, Medicare, tax cuts, the agenda of the possible - he'll have to keep Roe v. Wade on the back burner, and the best way to do that is to keep the Bible-thumpers happy...
...rest of the country, they get the diversity thing. Something for everybody - women, blacks, Hispanics and moderates to go with the old white gentleman conservatives (Ashcroft may be the first to break that mold, but AG isn't worth a fight for the left). Colin Powell alone is thought to be able to please 14 different interest groups without saying a word...
Still, there is speculation that Napster may ultimately allow video to be traded on its servers. Fanning, however, has said his company is currently focusing all of its development efforts on creating a fee structure, in alliance with record label Bertelsmann AG...
...warm reception on Wall Street could quickly cool if, as AG Edwards analyst Tim Winter quips, "the bureaucrats come back to make sure utilities can't make any money." Those aren't idle fears. The regulation-averse, Republican-led Senate just passed legislation to create an industry-oversight committee--this isn't an election year, is it?--to handle disputes and ensure the reliability of electricity nationwide. More ominous, in California the outcry has been so intense that utility officials recently lowered the price cap on rates that generators can charge on the open market. While that may help ease...
...altruism, but the decision by five pharmaceutical giants to slash the price of AIDS drugs in Africa has the potential to be an important milestone in the battle against the killer disease. Bristol Myers Squibb, Glaxo Wellcome PLC, Merck and Co., Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH and Roche Holding AG are set Thursday to announce a program negotiated with the United Nations to cut the price of AIDS drugs by as much as 90 percent on a continent where more than 23 million people are infected with HIV. The business context for that decision was highlighted by Wednesday's announcement...