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...than Democrats. From moderates like Susan Collins to conservatives like Larry Craig, Republicans started putting on the brakes. Last Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott signaled that White House chatter earlier that Bush could invade without Congress's okay was not going to happen. His administration would have to consult with the Senate and get its approval. In the House, Hyde had decided his hearings wouldn't be a cakewalk. "If it's a weak case, Republicans will object and will advise the president of their concerns, absolutely," Hyde warned in an interview with TIME. "I don't think...
...right combination of technology, investment and marketing to turn wireless Internet services into a profitable business. "If other markets were developing in the same way as Korea, the carriers would be making their shareholders very rich within a short period of time," says John Strand, CEO of Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in Copenhagen that focuses on the global mobile market...
...fragmented by competing standards, and a far smaller number of people under age 30 have mobile phones because of credit-rating problems. Yet Nicolaj Nielsen, a consultant for Strand Consult, sees changes ahead that bear resemblance to the Korean model. By year's end, Verizon, which also uses CDMA technology, is expected to offer a service that combines EV-DO's higher speeds with BREW's programmable technology. "Verizon's adoption of the brew virtual machine platform is expected to revolutionize the U.S. mobile data market," Nielsen says. And to further emulate South Korea's formula for success, the company...
...President appeared to apply the brakes Wednesday, following a meeting at his ranch with his national security team. He emphasized that he was in no rush to reach a decision on Iraq, his willingness to consider a range of non-military options and his intention to consult with allies over how to pursue his goal of ousting Saddam Hussein's regime. Bush's tone appeared to tilt towards the more cautious approach favored by Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Republican foreign policy old guard - the hawks, after all, had been pressing the urgency of immediate U.S. military action...
...actions such as rejection of the Kyoto treaty on global warming, declaration of a "first-strike" policy that might include an attack on Iraq and withdrawal from the agreement to create an International Criminal Court have convinced many Europeans that the U.S. no longer feels any need to consult its friends, or indeed any need for friends at all. "After World War II," a top European business leader and longtime friend of the U.S. told me in Brussels, "America was all-powerful and created a new world by defining its national interest broadly in a way that made it attractive...