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...Daniel Mao, chief operating officer of Sina, sits in a Japanese restaurant in Beijing jabbing at his sushi and coolly dissecting the fate of the industry. "Some will get bought, some will go broke," he predicts. "It will all be happening in the next nine months." A former venture capitalist, Mao engineered Sina's creation by arranging a merger between a U.S. Internet start-up and a Chinese software company. Soon he may preside over its resale. Mao contemplates the latest street buzz: AOL is rumored to be trying to acquire community portal Netease, while Microsoft is said...
...Presumably this will free up O'Neill to think about more mundane matters like, say, the ailing U.S. economy, the looming Japanese meltdown and the fate of his boss' tax cut on Capitol Hill...
...fate of the measure seems to be riding on whether and by how much to raise the hard-money limits. Hagel, whose alternative bill limiting but not banning soft money has the quiet support of the White House, told TIME he is ready to offer his measure if no deal emerges. Another battle looms over the bill's provision barring unions, corporations and interest groups from running "issue ads" for or against candidates close to Election Day. Opponents of the bill are also expected to try to plant a time bomb called "non-severability," which ensures that if any part...
...fight case was conveniently postponed until after the NCAA tournament. But its outcome will go a long way towards proving that either fate does exist, or Harley has been in the wrong place at the wrong time twice in the past three months...
...inclinations, to escalate its own involvement. The reason is not only because of the insurgency's roots in Kosovo - the policing of which, is, after all, NATO's responsibility - but also because Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and the Kosovar Albanians, among others, all maintain an active interest in the fate of the fragile Macedonian state. A full-scale war over Macedonia's borders is very unlikely to be confined to Macedonians...