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...recent years, companies have used the Internet to market themselves to an increasingly computer-savvy youth generation. Now schools-with the support of state governments-have also jumped on the virtual bandwagon, including Governor Wilson, who established CVU by an executive order in April...
With all the excitement, it was almost possible to forget that this was a bandwagon headed down a dark alley. In the hope of getting something passed, John McCain and Russell Feingold had already agreed to drop ideas like their offer of free television time to candidates who accept voluntary campaign-spending caps. Their bill's main surviving feature is a ban on "soft money" contributions, which pay for general party-building activities as opposed to individual campaigns. But even before the Senate debate started, Republican leaders, including Lott and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, were predicting that the smaller bill...
...this a naive hope? Unrealistic? Old-fashioned? Not at all. Not when Ted Turner has joined the bandwagon, pledging $1 billion to benefit United Nation's agencies in one of the largest charitable donations ever, and exhorting his super-rich colleagues to follow his lead...
...after a long battle with cancer; at his villa near Malaga, Spain. Goldsmith made his nut with pharmaceuticals and groceries and parlayed it into a fortune as a corporate raider in the '80s, acquiring high-profile targets. A legendary gambler, his business motto was "If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on it." Late in life he started one of his own, founding Britain's Referendum Party, which opposed the European common currency. His warm and very extended family included his third wife, who lives in London, and his second wife, his mistress and their...
...local governments are working furiously to undermine efforts in the House and Senate to prevent them from placing new taxes on Web commerce. They may have an uphill battle. Since the White House has hijacked the Republican pro-business stance, Congress is unlikely to jump on the regulatory bandwagon any time soon...