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WINSTON CHURCHILL was the century's best example of how individuals can shape history rather than being shaped by it. The force of his will and his words gave courage to his country and saved the West. Yet it was also Churchill who, after World War II, discerned the dangers to come from communist tyranny. Just as he defined the moral issues of the 1930s and 1940s, he defined the great moral challenge that would shape America's role in the world up to our own time. Totalitarianism was the greatest evil of the 20th century, and Churchill its most...
DIED. JACOBO TIMERMAN, 76, voluble Argentine journalist and activist imprisoned and tortured by military forces after the 1976 overthrow of President Isabel Peron; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. Timerman's 1981 best seller, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, sparked international outrage over human-rights abuses...
Consider Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, a Democrat and one of the A.G.s suing Microsoft. The company has hired two of his best friends, both former legislators. "They were in to see me once or twice" about the lawsuit, Miller says, and he's also heard from two former state A.G.s making Microsoft's arguments. A similar strategy seems to be at work in California, where, according to attorney general Bill Lockyer, the company hired a former state senator who is "a very close friend of mine." In West Virginia, Microsoft has taken a tougher tack. According to attorney general...
What doesn't make sense is that one of Gore's senior advisers, top-tier lobbyist Peter Knight, is a hired gun for pharmaceuticals giant Schering-Plough, which is in a red-hot battle to stretch out its patent for the best-selling allergy medication Claritin beyond 2002. The New Jersey-based company paid Knight's firm $100,000 in the first half of this year alone...
...children from the last two. The Center for Media Education tested six of the most popular programs to see if they blocked sites that promote or sell alcohol or tobacco. There was only one, Surf Watch, that blocked more than half the sites. Until there's better software, the best advice is still to monitor kids' surfing habits...