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...that the government bureaucracy functions more efficiently. Additionally, corruption is being rooted out. Sometimes a benevolent dictator is required to govern the less developed. If King Gyanendra turns out to be benevolent, he will be remembered in history as the father of modern Nepal. Give him a chance. F.A. Hutchison Kathmandu...
TEXAS The legislature is considering a ban on stem-cell research. Governor Rick Perry wants to bar public funding, but Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who may challenge Perry in next year's gubernatorial primary, supports state financing...
...shortage of volunteers to legislate decency. A bill that overwhelmingly passed in the House would increase indecency fines to $500,000 (from $32,500 for stations and $11,000 for individual performers). A Senate bill introduced last week by John D. Rockefeller, Democrat of West Virginia, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, also ups the ante to $500,000, plus would bring cable and satellite under FCC purview, though vaguely. Yet most frightening to media executives are the warnings of Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska and the powerful chairman of the Commerce Committee, that he may push...
...Even at companies with top-notch outside managers, maintaining the bloodline remains paramount. At Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, tycoon Li Ka-shing has been among Asia's most adept at attracting external professional managers, but ultimately, observers believe he'll eventually pass on the chairmanship to his eldest son, Victor. "There's a history of trying to keep things in the family," says shareholder-rights activist David Webb in Hong Kong...
...Governor, who is up for re-election in 2006. Perry's hefty donations from construction firms have been noted by public watchdogs. Since 1997, he has received more than $1 million from highway interests, according to reports filed with the Texas ethics commission. Two Republican rivals--Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and state comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn--have opposed the tolling of existing roads. Perry now says he, too, is against conversions, but notes that those decisions are up to local authorities...