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Given the opportunity to lead, Gingrich failed. His successful Contract with America campaign was based on unfulfilled rhetoric, posturing and appeal to fringe groups. The Republican Party must move away from the fanatical right, just as the Democratic Party has moved away from the radical left. Most Republicans identify themselves as conservatives. However, few consider themselves reactionaries. The loss of the South and West in the elections was the result of a lack of insight and leadership. Newt's resignation is not the "honorable thing"; it is the necessary action to allow the party to move forward and return...
PHOENIX--The Arizona Diamondbacks, in the spectacular final act of their ambitious offseason pursuit of free agents, agreed yesterday to a $52.4 million, four-year contract with Randy Johnson...
With an average salary of $13.1 million per season, Johnson becomes the game's highest-paid pitcher and the second-highest paid player behind Mo Vaughn, who agreed last week to an $80 million, six-year contract with Anaheim that averages $13.33 million...
...record, we at the Felicity television series did not fire writer Riley Weston when we "learned she was 32 years old instead of 19, as she had claimed." In fact, a full two weeks before she revealed her actual age to us, we chose not to renew Weston's contract. All our writers are in their 30s or 40s. Had Weston been the right fit for our show, regardless of her age, she would still be here. Next time, if your writer does even less research, he'll be writing complete fiction. In which case he's invited to come...
...without the need for an expensive operating system like Windows. To head off that threat, Microsoft licensed Java from Sun in 1995 and used it to create its own "polluted"--or incompatible--version, which discouraged software developers from using the original Sun program. Sun cried breach of contract, and a lawsuit followed. Now Judge Ronald Whyte has handed Redmond a February deadline to stop shipping Java technology--currently included in Windows 98, Internet Explorer and even the humble Microsoft Office suite--without first getting Sun's seal of approval...