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...division has seen its once stratospheric subscriber growth slow, its ad revenue fall and its international operations bleed money. The much ballyhooed broadband move--in which networked homes will enjoy high-speed connections to movies and music whenever they want--is off to a rocky start. Any delay is crucial to consumers eagerly anticipating the broadband revolution, because if AOL, with all its affiliated cable systems and entertainment properties, can't deliver those services, who can? Microsoft? Comcast? Rupert Murdoch...
...staff members were less than enthusiastic about the report, according to co-author Bruce Fuller, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. When researchers presented their findings at a tense February meeting, Fuller says, HHS "requested that we delay release by two months." Why all the fuss? The debate over reauthorizing the landmark 1996 Welfare Reform Act is heating up, and the Administration wants to increase the workweek of welfare recipients from 30 hours to 40 hours while holding current child-care funding steady at $4.8 billion. The National Governors Association and the National Conference of State Legislatures, seeing...
...fans waited and watched good-naturedly as several guitars, African talking drums, maracas, a penny whistle, Tibetan finger cymbals, a mandolin, a Cajun washboard, a djembe and a myriad of other instruments appeared onstage. Mellow Beatles covers provided background noise as excited groupies mulled about, unruffled by the delay and fraught with anticipation. When the band finally made their way onstage, the audience was assaulted by a frenzy of percussion and a primal howling that could only mean one thing: Rusted Root was back in Boston...
...Arab and European eyes, President Bush simply caved in to an Israeli leader who walked him back from demanding an end to incursions "without delay" to proclaiming victory because "[Sharon] gave me a timetable and he met the timetable...
...resolutions to that effect. And they refused to heed Washington's entreaties for a cease-fire in the absence of Israeli compliance. Palestinian officials on Wednesday angrily chided Washington for caving in to Sharon after demanding more than a week ago to withdraw from Palestinian cities "without delay." And they appealed for Arab support, knowing that it was pressure from Washington's moderate Arab allies that forced the Bush administration to enter the fray in the first place...