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...officially commences this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, and there will be business casualties. Both systems are scheduled for fall release. The winner could easily oust Sony's PlayStation 2 from the top of the charts, while the loser could just as easily go the way of Sega's defunct Dreamcast, which sold only half its projected 6 million units before Sega pulled the plug...
...agree that the drug-infatuated actor is a loser. But is he a loser who needs medical help to break out of his addiction? Or is he one who ought to get more hard time--he has already done a year behind bars--because that's the only way to get some users to take rehab seriously? Is he a threat only to himself? Or is he the carrier of an infection that could spread if we don't lock him away? In short, should we treat him or trash...
...appreciation of Internet time: they were recruited, hired and fired in the space of six months without ever doing a day's work. They even collected three months' severance plus the run of Cisco's outplacement services. Some jilted seniors were happy to bid adieu to this loser. "In the fall Cisco was healthy and growing," a student says. "Now it's slowing down, and I don't want to work for a company with problems...
...punt like other presidents or will he fulfill his promise to change the way Washington works by taking on their recommendations even if they are politically unpopular? He might. During the campaign nearly everyone outside of his inner circle told him his Social Security privatization plan was a loser. Bush nevertheless stuck by the plan and campaigned hard for it. Forming a commission allows him to delay that bravery until the fall. And if he keeps his backbone Bush will not only settle one of our most nettlesome public policy issues, but he'll revive the honor of presidential commissions...
...first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, Rick Perlstein offers an intriguing thesis: While Goldwater may have been the biggest popular-vote loser in American presidential-race history, the movement which garnered him the 1964 Republican nomination laid the groundwork for the conservative revolution that led to the election of Ronald Reagan 16 years later, signaling the retreat of the modern welfare state as we know...