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...hasn't been bad for business. - By Peter Gumbel Leapfrogging Rock Stars When British rockers Coldplay released the first track off their new CD last week, you could almost sense the relief at record label EMI. Chairman Eric Nicoli partly blamed a 13% dip in annual profits on the delay of the group's latest album. All the more irritating, then, that Crazy Frog's Axel F, mixing the theme tune from the Beverly Hills Cop movie with an infuriating mobile-phone ring tone - think two-stroke scooters voiced by an animated frog - outsold Coldplay's single fourfold last week...
Unfortunately, this compromise could be merely a delay before an inevitable showdown over the filibuster. The key to this compromise is the ambiguous phrase extraordinary circumstances, and the danger is that Republicans could interpret this phrase as, Democrats can keep the filibuster as long as they never use it. Especially in the event of a Supreme Court vacancy, arguments over a contentious judicial nomination could degenerate into a Filibuster: Round Two debate...
...those convulsions of public feeling that impel strangers to converge on a single spot. They were not there to protest. Dancing, singing and launching fireworks, some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political victory. After a nine-hour parliamentary debate, and six long years of delay, a bill granting women the right to vote and to run for public office finally passed. "Our hearts are overflowing with joy and happiness," exulted Fayza al-Awadhi, a member of the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural & Social Society. Giving women the vote was first debated in 1999, but was blocked...
...views on the ethics scandals roiling Washington [May 9], proved that more stringent campaign-finance reform can no longer be postponed. It is appalling that Abramoff hides behind the defense that he is not the worst-behaved lobbyist in Washington. Abramoff and his friend House majority leader Tom DeLay need to be reminded that representing the people is a privilege, one not to be exploited for personal gain. I feel no sympathy for Abramoff, who now must spend a lot of money on lawyers instead of making money from his clients...
...nearly 90 million vehicles that are expected to speed over U.S. roads by 1972. With fewer curves, no crossroads and a wide center strip, the super system is expected to save 3,500 lives annually, reduce accident costs by $725 million, save commercial operators another $825 million by cutting delay ... Motorists will be able to drive from Los Angeles to New York over the federal network without passing a single traffic light or intersection. --TIME, June...