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...latter point, here are some of the things your Federal Government was doing last week. The military imposed an assault-weapons ban on anarchic Baghdad (even as Representative Tom DeLay of Texas recently let slip that Congress won't renew one at home). It was disclosed that the Central Intelligence Agency is trying to figure out, among other things, how we came to the questionable conclusion that Saddam Hussein possessed massive stocks of illegal weapons. The CIA will surely look into the activities of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, an intelligence nodule created by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...gold standard in computer-generated imagination. Gold, as in $1.73 billion worldwide gross for that quartet, plus truckfuls more in video and DVD profits. Pixar owner Steve Jobs will need a battleship to hold all the money his current distribution partner, Disney, will need to fork over to renew their contract, which expires in 2005. The two studios now split the profits from Pixar movies, but since Pixar's CGI movies have been grossing nearly twice what the Mouse House's own animated films take in, Jobs wants a more grownup portion of the money...
...extermination of GAM? Not at all, insists General Sudi. If GAM rebels accept that Aceh is a part of Indonesia, then "we won't kill them all," he says. And if victory isn't secured before martial law expires six months from now? Then, says Sudi, "we'll just renew it"?as many times as it takes...
...Peasants were the first to benefit from Deng Xiaoping's early economic reforms in the late 1970s but have lagged far behind coastal residents in the years since. The growing disparity threatens social stability. About 150 million farmers have poured into overcrowded cities, looking for work. Modernizing agriculture could renew economic growth outside the cities...
Unlike most singers in a cappella groups on campus, the Choral Fellows enjoy many special benefits. If accepted to the Fellows after spring auditions, singers earn one-year appointments with the option to renew their place, and for that year receive stipends and free voice lessons...