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...late and start again early because the Do-Nothing Congress needs something to run on in November. And so last week saw everything from a vote to send condolences to Florida for its wildfires to trade votes, abortion fights and a health-care bill passed just moments before the bell rang shortly after 3:10 p.m., telling lawmakers that school was out, the week's work was over and they could go home. John Boehner, the fourth-ranking House Republican, was sitting in his hideaway, the small office he often uses for meetings on the Capitol's first floor. There...
...YORK: How many phone companies are in your future? Fewer than there are now -- but if you're lucky, each of them will do a lot more for you than the former AT&T monopoly. Tuesday's announcement that local phone giant Bell Atlantic will swallow GTE certainly positions it to be one of the last Bells standing -- but expect the FCC to make sure it gives a little, first...
...Bell Atlantic, AT&T -- all these companies want their brand to be one-stop shopping: local phone service, long-distance service and Internet access," says TIME business correspondent John Greenwald. "The FCC just needs to ensure that there are more than one of these brands in each market." Under the Telecommunications Act, the Baby Bells have to give up their monopoly on the local markets -- and that hasn't happened yet, which is a major hurdle for this merger. But if it's approved, Bell Atlantic, armed with GTE's long-distance service, will have taken a step toward crossover...
30.For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway...
...probably get this a lot, but the name Depeche Mode rings a bell...