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...making decisions at home. Bush's experience as a businessman should give him a persuasive voice on economic problems, but thus far it hasn't. Yet overseas, where Bush's experience is more limited and his advisers are divided, he is running greater risks and relying on a moral code that almost everyone believes will be difficult to maintain. The Republican stalwarts who spoke to Time were quick to say they did not want Bush to abandon his preference for the stark choice; they just argued that he should do less of it abroad and more of it at home...
...countries that still condone stoning, Iran uses it most often. Although Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is said to have discouraged the practice because of the brutal image it gave Islam, conservative judges have inflicted the punishment recently, most likely to embarrass and undermine reformist President Mohammed Khatami. Iran's penal code specifies, "The stoning of an adulterer or adulteress shall be carried out while each is placed in a hole and covered with soil, he up to his waist and she up to a line above her breasts." Court-appointed officials or ordinary citizens then pelt the accused with stones large...
...York Post scrutinized it for clues as if it were the cover of Abbey Road. (Why is Paulie wearing a white suit? Is he with the angels?) But when it comes to secrets--down to admitting whether they appear in a certain episode--the cast members follow a strict code of omerta. Bracco gives a variation on the standard answer: "If you're gonna pay for 13 hours of TV, you have the right to be happily surprised." Last year, after gossip columnist Mitchell Fink published plot spoilers in the New York Daily News, Sopranos writers created a scene...
...rest of the world rushing to copy Korea? Technical standards are still an issue. South Korean phones are based on a standard called CDMA (code division multiple access) rather than GSM (global system for mobile communication), the standard used in Europe and many other parts of the world. It is easier and cheaper to upgrade CDMA, so South Korean mobile operators are able to offer high speeds now, while it may take operators in Europe several more years to get there...
After 10 years as a globe-trotting sales exec at Cisco Systems, Nuti had been touted by analysts as a potential successor to Cisco CEO John Chambers. But Nuti, 38, recently left the networking giant to become president of Symbol Technologies, the world's largest maker of bar-code scanners, based on Long Island, New York. Nuti likes Symbol's growth potential and will no longer have to commute from his Long Island home to Silicon Valley...