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DALE EARNHARDT JR., NASCAR driver, in a live interview on NBC after winning his fifth race at the Talladega (Ala.) Speedway. He was fined $10,000 by NASCAR, and NBC later announced a 5-sec. delay on sports coverage...
After House majority leader Tom DeLay redrew his old rival Martin Frost's district out of existence a year ago, Frost, a veteran Congressman, decided to stand in another one, the 32nd. The incumbent there, freshman Pete Sessions, suddenly faces a pit bull of a campaigner in a battle that will probably be the most expensive House race in the country, with each side expected to spend $4 million. With the candidates trading charges of poster stealing and arguing over who is tougher on child kidnappers, neither one may come out of this ugly fight looking like a winner...
...most difficult issues to an indefinite future." There is no more difficult issue than Kosovo's independence - and no middle ground between the two communities' views. Kosovar Albanian leaders want results now. "Independence," the Kosovar Albanian Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi told Time, "is necessary for our development. Any [further] delay will bring more trouble." Kosovar Serbs say they don't trust Albanian leaders to protect their rights. "We have heard all the promises before," says Ilija Trajkovic. "They are old lies." U.N. officials insist that the best way Serbs can be heard is by electing their leaders...
Byrd said Saturday that, despite the delay, a sizeable number of the campus extracurriculars—70 percent, by his estimate—he hopes to partner with have not yet fully gotten underway, and he expects increased participation in the weeks to come...
...Ramsay says the industry has five years to figure out how to work file sharing into its business; Hastings thinks it's more like 10. (Both caution that contrary to some reports, we're not likely to see a full-fledged Netflix-TiVo deal in the immediate future.) The delay in incorporating file sharing has a lot to do with the slow speed of most Americans' Internet access. Even with cable and DSL connections that average 2 megabits per second, it can take 16 hours to download a movie with just a third of the quality...