Word: connectivity
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...added up to one of the most compelling connections yet between foreign cash and official favors in Washington. But hardly anyone noticed it. If the first week of the Senate campaign-finance hearings had devolved into political bombast, the second turned out to be a game of connect the dots. Nothing emerged to corroborate Fred Thompson's first-day claim that communist China had tried to "subvert" U.S. elections in 1996 with illegal campaign money, although Democrats confirmed that a classified briefing provided evidence to suggest China had at least tried to influence the congressional elections last year...
...strategy was to document the criminal background of a number of deprogrammers and then connect them to Ms. Kisser," Jentzsch said. "She admitted in depositions that she had gone on to conduct other deprogramming and provided a conduit of evidence for other deprogrammers...
Still, the First Amendment notwithstanding, many Americans feel that parents have a legitimate right to protect their kids from inappropriate material. "You can't connect every high school in America to the Net unless there's some way to ensure that kids won't see what they're not supposed to," says Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law School professor and author of an essay, "Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace," that was cited repeatedly by Justice O'Connor in a minority opinion. "It can't be the case that Congress has no power to regulate here...
...called The Voice of Democracy. Its mission: to provide a platform for criticism of the incoming government. Editor-in-Chief Eddy Leung says he knows that he and his colleagues could be arrested under Beijing's new mandates, but that's a risk they're willing to take to connect Hong Kong's 500,000 Internet users with the rest of the world. So, too, apparently are the producers of other controversial web sites, such as The Apple Daily, whose columnist and self-professed pimp "Fat Dragon" routinely ridicules Chinese politicians. Other web producers are lying low, fearful...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fund-raising attack dog Fred Thompson wants immunity for 19 witnesses who may be able to connect Al Gore to a slew of illegal and improper donations. But Republicans need two more votes to achieve a two-thirds majority on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that must approve the immunity, and Senate Democrats say they are not ready to go along. "We're not getting any kind of cooperation on the things that we hold to be very important," said Tom Daschle. "We just think it's premature." Democrats may block Thompson's efforts to begin hearings next...