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...deepening that commitment. He made abundantly clear, for example, that Washington has no appetite for direct involvement in heading off the looming civil war in neighboring Macedonia. He simply urged all sides to return to the negotiating table and urged Kosovo?s Albanians to stay out of the fray. But renewed fighting in the town of Tetovo, sparked by rebel forces taking advantage of a Western-brokered cease-fire to occupy new territory, underlined doubts that NATO?s diplomacy - preemptive nation-building, if you like - will be sufficient to stop the slide into civil war. And that would likely force...
...veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied, "that's all anyone's going to hear." To Hughes, the counselor responsible for the words Bush says and the image he presents--promising to veto a popular bill was sure to be a p.r. disaster. Bush had to be for the people...
...itself, Hollywood is taking time-tested crowd pleasers--namely, talking animals--further and further into the digital realm. Dr. Dolittle 2, in which Eddie Murphy talks to computerized critters, will still be in theaters when Cats & Dogs, a whiz-bang homage to Chuck Jones and James Bond, enters the fray. "We have to deliver images that audiences have never seen before," says Cats & Dogs' director Lawrence Guterman. "It has to be funny--otherwise there's no movie--but at the same time you have to deliver something new." That effort has gone on for two years, since Guterman and visual...
...veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied, "that's all anyone's going to hear." To Hughes, the counselor responsible for the words Bush says and the image he presents--promising to veto a popular bill was sure to be a p.r. disaster. Bush had to be for the people...
...that sentiment goes against our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of litigation. Even the talking heads on CNBC are being dragged into the fray. A pediatrician in New York City recently filed an arbitration claim against celebrity analyst Henry Blodget, accusing him of keeping a "buy" rating on a downhill dotcom because his employer, Merrill Lynch, was underwriting a merger pegged to the company's share value. Merrill Lynch insists Blodget did not know about the impending merger...