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...suspension of the power-sharing government and the return of direct rule from London. Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has warned that the IRA's refusal thus far to begin turning in weapons makes his party's presence in a coalition government with Sinn Fein untenable, and vowed to quit unless London suspended the institution...
...came up with the idea of having a real farmer guest-star at the Iowa debate. And his campaign decided that the best way to blunt Bradley's criticisms of him as an Establishment politician was to extend a hand to Bradley on national TV and challenge him to quit advertising and debate more instead. "A ploy," Bradley said disdainfully, and the pundits agreed. But at a time when television in Iowa and New Hampshire has become a wearying loop of campaign ads, polls and focus groups in those states showed that voters loved Gore's idea...
...Apple was Steve Jobs' leaving. His years of exile in the desert--where he founded the doomed NeXT computer system and bought the successful Pixar Animation Studios--filled him with so many great ideas that the Apple he's resurrecting could end up being stronger than the Apple he quit. The effects of his sabbatical are especially apparent in Aqua, the front end to the forthcoming operating-system upgrade known...
...with all that's been learned about the dangers of smoking while pregnant--high rates of miscarriage, babies with impaired mental development and low birth weight--that mothers-to-be would just snuff it out already. Not so. A new report shows that the percentage of pregnant women who quit smoking--about 50%--has remained unchanged over the past decade. --By Janice M. Horowitz...
Alan Greenspan should have quit. Instead of accepting renomination as chairman of the Federal Reserve two weeks ago, he should have said, "No, thank you" and bowed out on top. Michael Jordan did it. So did Jerry Seinfeld. Babe Ruth didn't--and finished feebly in Boston. I'm not saying Greenspan will go down in flames. In 12 years, he's steered us through a stock-market crash, banking crisis and emerging-market disasters and hasn't gone soft. But as the wild gyrations in stock prices so far this year suggest, the Fed's job is getting tougher...