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...easy part. Appeasing the phone companies will be harder. "While we support the goal of wiring classrooms," says MCI spokesman Brad Burns, "we don't think we should be put in the position of playing fee collector for the Federal Government." The long-distance companies have already begun collecting the surcharge from their business customers, adding as much as 5% to their bills. In July, they warn, they'll place a line-item charge on residential users as well. Phone companies, which are trying to outdo one another by offering service for pennies a minute, claim the surcharge...
...debate is likely to get lost on the consumer. "You can call it what you want," says Paul Harman, a Georgia accountant who complained to the FCC after his company noticed the charge. "It's just another form of taxation. The consumer pays in the end." Lawmakers have begun to hear similar complaints. At a hearing in February, Congressman Ed Bryant, a Tennessee Republican, waved a copy of a telephone bill sent him by a constituent who was confused and angry over the $4 surcharge his company was having to pay. "How shall I explain this tax to my constituent...
...military has clearly decided political change is necessary: Wiranto has repeatedly supported the students' right to demonstrate on campus, and ordinary soldiers patrolling universities have begun high-fiving students and giving them thumbs-up signals. "The military has decided what's good for society is good for the military, and what is good for the military is good for society," says Afan Gaffar, a political scientist at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. "I strongly believe the military will take the side of the students...
...next step: An election for the new Northern Ireland assembly on June 25 -- and the political wrangling for seats in that body has already begun. But today's vote means that power will no longer be won with bullets and bombs. "This vote says people want to try a new kind of politics," Hillenbrand says. "If I had said four years ago I'd be standing in a room with paramilitaries from all organizations, you'd have had me committed. There's no love between these people." What there is now is peace...
...think he's been important in over-seeing aprocess begun before his presidency by making adifference in seeing that the peace accords werefollowed through by both sides." she said, afterattending the discussion...