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Higher phone bills and overpaid bureaucrats are not easy things for lawmakers to defend in an election year. "We did not vote to have the FCC set up a giant bureaucracy headed by someone paid as much as the President," thunders Democrat John Dingell, ranking minority member of the House Commerce Committee. "The era of Kings in this country ended when we kicked out George...
...diplomat. "We came away from the meetings saying, 'Hey, they're not going to take any precipitous actions.'" A stern letter is sent to Clinton by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in early April, warning that "we have every reason to believe the Indian policy pronouncement connotes a giant step toward fully operationalizing nuclear policy." The State Department dismisses the letter as crying wolf and files it in the false-alarm drawer. By then, India's preparations are well under way. Scientists and engineers have been moving in small groups from their laboratories to the desert testing site in Rajasthan...
...Director George Tenet is sitting in his seventh-floor office at Langley, Va., sipping coffee at 8:45 a.m., when an aide rushes in: India has just set off a nuclear test explosion. This is terrible news because New Delhi has just blown a giant hole in the campaign to control the spread of atomic weapons, and because the CIA is only learning about it from the press. Tenet's $27 billion-a-year intelligence apparatus, the largest and most sophisticated on the globe, has been humiliatingly blindsided. Nuclear proliferation is supposed to be its top priority, yet neither...
...issue, of course, is the line between what Bill Gates can and cannot legally do with Windows, his de facto operating-system monopoly. Klein's team has spent the past year amassing what the DOJ clearly considers persuasive evidence that the software giant's behavior--from restrictive licensing arrangements with its so-called PC allies to me-only marketing deals with Internet service providers and websites--violates the venerable Sherman Act, the bedrock of U.S. antitrust law. Sherman, in essence, says it's O.K. to achieve a monopoly, but not to use one to wedge your way into other lines...
...hours, and we are certainly not afraid to be a part of a crowd. On the last night of reading period, no one needed a famous band to bring hordes of students out of their dorms. Nor was it necessary to hand out free alcohol or to haul in giant inflatable office supplies. Just hours before exams, hundreds of undergraduates defied every Harvard stereo-type, converging on the Yard for the Primal Scream. There is no longer any secret about how to attract a crowd. As we can see, it's all about naked people...