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...company becomes the first major sponsor to walk away from the event in the wake of the bribery scandal. "This is a very serious development," says TIME senior editor Bill Saporito. "It signals that some corporations will not fall over themselves to support what is perceived to be a corrupt organization...
...reform. The bane of the Capital Hill establishment. Two years ago, Feingold, along with senior Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), introduced a remarkable piece of legislation, meant to effectively abolish the corrupt and undemocratic system of campaign finance. The McCain-Feingold Bill would limit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions and ban "soft money," the unlimited contributions to political parties which are then diverted to individual campaigns. For the last two years, however, McCain-Feingold has been ignored by the United States Congress, left to languish in some subcommittee...
...Premier, likes it. Zhu, 70, is a risk taker, a breed apart in the Chinese leadership. In Beijing they call him Zhu Fengzi, Madman Zhu, as he crashes through the rickety communist superstructure in the name of reform, laying off millions of workers from state-owned enterprises, terrorizing corrupt officials, having smugglers shot. On a good day they call him Zhu Laoban, Zhu the Boss, the only man capable of imposing order on an economy of 1.3 billion money-hungry people snarled in one of the greatest economic traffic jams the world has ever seen. Discipline has always been...
Instead, I should have called CompUSA, which supports virtually all computers and software. At 1-900-CALL-COMP, you get $2.49-a-minute help (first minute free) from real pros. I immediately reached someone there who quickly diagnosed my problem as a corrupted registry and told me how to fix it. Kip Crosby, co-author of the indispensable Windows 98 Bible, later said the registry, a humongous file that helps initialize programs, is often where problems arise. "When it's corrupt, it's almost impossible to repair," he said, noting that hardly anyone in the support world will muck around...
...copycat filmmaking, exactly. The Howard film--written, with their usual comic clarity, by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel--is a version of the 1994 Quebec farce Louis 19, le roi des ondes. But Hollywood, temporarily bereft of original ideas, has become fascinated by its power to create and corrupt. It looks at O.J., Monica, the rubes and rhubarbs on Jerry Springer and asks, with a mixture of self-accusation and self-awe, What have we done...