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While Keane's political sensibilities aregrounded in his former incarnation as aentrepreneur, he rejected the idea that skills inbusiness necessarily translate to the politicalarena...
...early announcement also upset many relatives of the 270 people who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. "This idea opens a Pandora's box, and they just want to dump the sanctions," said Susan Cohen after speaking with Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger. And with none of the logistics of conducting a Scottish trial in The Hague worked out, even President Clinton seemed skeptical: "We're looking at it but I don't know that it can be done," he said. Memo to State: Next time, make sure everyone's on the same page...
...with, which will eventually turn into equity stakes. The partnership will produce journalistic specials of some sort for ABC (also owned by Disney) that will feature Brown doing interviews. Beyond that, details are sketchy, perhaps even to the principals themselves. But Weinstein makes the whole thing sound easy: "The idea is to marry the two cultures together and say, 'This is a brilliant story that takes place in England; we'll give that to Anthony Minghella [director of The English Patient]. This is something that's feminist and sexy; that sounds like Jane Campion [The Piano]." Ahh. Why didn...
...itself, tenure isn't an awful idea. Most judges and university professors have it. Its noble purpose is to protect teachers from being fired unjustly because, say, they won't teach creationism. And teacher unions point out that tenure confers basic due process...
...Given that the idea is likely to rankle those on the right, it's surprising to find it was effectively ordered by the GOP -- as part of a health insurance law passed by Congress in 1996. Now they can rest easy as the White House goes through the messy and contentious process of actually trying to implement it. As for the tracking number, there are two proposals: a) Create a new code for everyone based on your date and location of birth and hire hundreds of bureaucrats to dish them out; and b) use your Social Security number. No prizes...