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...most likely resistors to the peace, there still remains the substantial prospect of rifts in the Muslim-Croat alliance. The two sides fought each other in the early years of the war, and it was only their mutual antipathy toward the Serbs that brought them together. Progress on joint Muslim-Croat institutions has been slow, and the promises to return refugees to their homes within Federation territory have gone largely unfulfilled. Many Bosnian Croats harbor hopes to unite their territory with a "Greater Croatia," and much will depend upon whether European economic inducements can encourage Croatian President Franjo Tudjman...
TIME's John Dickerson reports that House and Senate negotiators are close to a compromise between their versions of legislation prohibiting the distribution of "indecent material" over the Internet and online services. House members on a joint committee narrowly voted Wednesday to ban "indecent" material, but to give service providers protection against prosecution. "The online services were worried that using the broad 'indecent' standard, rather than the more narrowly defined 'harmful to minors' standard, would produce a 'chilling effect' by holding them responsible for indecent materials in their system," says TIME's John Dickerson. "But the bill lets providers...
...representative of the [Joint Committee on Benefits] has even implied to me that any such thing is forthcoming. I find it hard to imagine how someone could make a change that would be effective January 1," he added...
TIME's John Dickerson reports that House and Senate negotiators may reach a compromise as soon as this evening between their versions of legislation prohibiting the distribution of "indecent material" over the Internet and online services. House members on a joint committee narrowly voted Wednesday to ban "indecent" material, but to give service providers protection against prosecution. "The online services were worried that using the broad 'indecent' standard, rather than the more narrowly defined 'harmful to minors' standard, would produce a 'chilling effect' by holding them responsible for indecent materials in their system," says TIME's John Dickerson...
Fortunately, "here" is only a simulated fast-food joint, not the real thing. Jupiter and 19 classmates, all of them 55 or older, are the first students in an odd if hopeful training program begun jointly this fall by New York City's Department for the Aging and the Riese Organization, a Manhattan-based company that owns 200 chain-restaurant franchises. Designed to help the elderly rejoin today's service-oriented economy--sometimes after years of unemployment or retirement that has left them with skills applicable only to old-fashioned, well-paying jobs--the center was created with...