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...trying to hold some things back," he said. Bradley said he did not believe his ideas would get much attention among voters and in the media if he unveiled them...
Milosevic probably does not watch the Sunday talk shows. But he surely was influenced in his thinking about when to hold and when to fold by his assessment of the climate of opinion in the U.S. Relentless predictions of quagmire are partly self-fulfilling. The constant carpers and gloomy doomsters of the commentariat and Capitol Hill encouraged Milosevic to think America would fold first. Thus they prolonged the war and added to the human cost they claimed to deplore. Of course, this complaint could be used to discredit dissent in any war, and often has been. Aiding and comforting...
Phoenix has had its share of both. Last year the city paid $5.3 million to the family of a black 25-year-old who died as the result of a neck hold during a 1994 altercation with police; he was a double amputee whose prosthetic legs came off during the struggle. And a civil trial awaits in the 1996 police killing of a 16-year-old Hispanic, shot 25 times while armed with a butcher knife...
...decent one for $250 or less. Another reason is the spread of MP3, the hugely popular standard for downloading music online. What better way to store your MP3 collection than on CDs? Blank CD-R discs (which can record only once) cost about $2 each and hold 650 MB of data. If you figure an average of 5 MB per MP3 tune, one disc holds about 130 songs. By any measure, that's a lot of tuneage...
Something similar happened when I started duping music CDs. I made a copy of Art Pepper's Smack Up, but it didn't work in my 18-month-old portable CD player. The solution was a CD-R disc, which can hold up to 74 minutes of audio and worked just fine on my portable player, my PC and my Mac. You'll have to go to the Net to find conversion software that allows you to burn MP3s onto CDs and play them in your Discman, however. None was included. Why? Why? Why? I never got a good answer...