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...time. But far from ducking, week after week White House aides raised the stakes. When they saw him engage the issue so deeply, they realized that stem-cell research was not just a tough call but a fresh chance--an opportunity to reintroduce Bush to America as an honest broker and surefooted guide who could reach a place of clean common sense. His address Thursday night raised all the hard questions without answering any of them: Is an embryo growing in a Petri dish the same as one growing in a womb? Is it O.K. to experiment...
MICHAEL OVITZ Former H'wood titan sacks half his TV management co.'s staff. A power broker without power...
...while a representative of Sigma Chi and Pi Eta alumni approved the February listing of the house with a real estate broker, Sigma Chi argues that the listing was not consensual but only a move to remain cooperative while it worked to halt the board’s move. Sigma Chi argues that its “ownership interests” in the house would preclude a sale or at the very least force a sharing of the profits...
...representatives, has moved the guerrillas inexorably toward center stage. Once decried by NATO as "murderers in the hills," they have now become a de facto negotiating partner of the Western alliance. Of course NATO isn't talking about including them in political talks just yet - it's hoping to broker a deal among the Macedonian and ethnic-Albanian political parties that have all participated in the country's democratic system until now. But from the guerrillas' point of view, it's only as long as they're waging war that anyone's even talking to them. And that...
...there's no easy answer in the debate over privatization. The best advice for voters at this point is probably what a stock broker would give: read the prospectus carefully before you buy either side...