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...meantime, the states have pressed Washington for money to pay for things it has demanded--among them, homeland-security initiatives, election reform and broader Medicaid benefits for the poor. Beset by federal deficits, the Bush Administration is unlikely to provide much help at a time when it is focused on tax cuts and a possible war with Iraq. The states are being left to deal with their crises pretty much alone, but they plan to share their burdens in any way possible. One area ripe for cuts is state aid to municipalities and local transit authorities, so the crises...
...Franzen's book were just an exercise in elegant melancholy, a requiem for reading, it would be handsome but unhelpful. It's not in his ambivalent nature to provide anything so clear-cut as answers (he's beautifully beset), but he frames the questions fully and with feeling. Do good books matter anymore? This one does. --By Richard Lacayo
...Peacock acknowledges that 3 has been beset by delays (which are reported almost gleefully in the English press). Although the company might not make its original goal of a full-scale launch by year-end, Peacock says he's confident that it won't miss by more than a few weeks. "More important than making a deadline," he adds, "is ensuring that the product delivers as promised...
Anyone who bet on the perpetually recycled promise that the Internet was about to find a new home on the displays of mobile phones is probably broke by now. Although beset by bad marketing and uncertain demand, the mobile Internet's fundamental problem has been that the tiny phone screen is a lousy way to absorb information from the Net. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but that may be about to change. Opera, the tiny Norwegian upstart whose PC browser has in the last 18 months lured some 12 million customers away from products like Microsoft...
...founded in 1998, as a center affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, at a time when Sachs was chair of then-troubled Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID). HIID was beset with controversy over the alleged wrongdoing of two of its affiliates working on its Russia project—a case that is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit by the U.S. government...