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...Elect a Senator from Texas and not the Connecticut investment bankers," went the Yarborough campaign chants. As W. worked on his dad's campaign during his summer before college, he saw how poisonous the not-one-of-us stereotype could be. On election night, the narrow defeat was a huge blow. "I don't understand it," the father said at the time. "I guess I have a lot to learn about politics...
...York federal court decision in April that MP3.com another music-sharing service, had violated music copyrights. MP3.com ended up settling with some of the record companies suing it, agreeing to pay some $100 million and to hand over licensing fees in the future. But even if the record companies defeat Napster, that will not solve the problem they created when they digitized music in the first place, making copying so easy to do. "If they were to shut it down in America, it would move to Canada or somewhere else," says Boies. "There's a reason they call...
...three leaders at Camp David suffered defeat. President Clinton, who invested an unprecedented proportion of his presidency trying to resolve this particular regional conflict, will have to settle for yardage rather than a touchdown. Barak may have averted a showdown with conservatives, but they're unlikely to return to his fold - and he'll have to fight the perception that he's failed in the very mission for which Israelis elected him: to make peace with the Syrians and Palestinians...
Depend on the FBI to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Just as the bureau was about to emerge from the cloud of Waco, leaks disclosed the existence of a powerful FBI-designed e-mail sniffing software code-named Carnivore...
...smolder. Roses, now worldwide director of genetics at Glaxo Wellcome, says he and his colleagues looked at that gene. "I even filed a patent on it," he says with a grin. But he's now convinced that it's not the right gene. Tanzi, however, refuses to acknowledge defeat. "There's a ton of biology that suggests it's a good candidate," he says. Among other things, A2M appears to mediate the rate at which neurons produce beta amyloid...