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...delete or miss anything TiVo had saved especially for me - who wants to disappoint a machine that has worked so hard?--I lost a lot of sleep watching things I wasn't quite in the mood for. Take the night I stayed up bleary-eyed through the three-hour Russian version of Solaris just so TiVo could cram the next day's Simpsons and West Wing onto its NOW PLAYING list. There must, I knew, be a way to make TiVo work a little harder...
...hours at the lowest quality. That isn't anything like the limit - you can get up to 344 hours on the 320-gigabyte drive - but it's enough to record every single West Wing ever broadcast. And maybe I'll have space left for a nice long Russian movie...
...against the complex reality, Rumsfeld's allegations that Iran is meddling in Iraq and harboring al-Qaeda are unlikely to galvanize much by way of international action against Tehran. But the issue of nuclear weapons is different. If Washington can prove that Tehran is, indeed, planning to use its Russian-built nuclear reactors to create weapons, the U.S. would have a strong case for international action against Iran. Tehran swears it has no plans to develop nuclear weapons, and that it has played open cards with the International Atomic Energy Agency. But the U.S. and some of its allies have...
...killing 59 people and injuring 200. Two days later, a bomb at a festival near the capital, Grozny, killed at least 18 and injured more than five times as many. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had just landed in Moscow, called the bombings barbarous. Standing by his side, Russian President Vladimir Putin equated the Chechnya conflict to the "war on terrorism" and the bombings to those that rocked Riyadh last week...
...Russian President rode to power in 1999 on the promise that he alone could bring peace to Chechnya. To that end, he compelled Chechens to vote on a political solution to the conflict last March, an exercise widely dismissed as a sham because it was conducted by force. Putin did pull a token number of troops out of Chechnya and promised that he would put an end to the routine abductions and executions of Chechen civilians. Yet more than 200 people have been abducted since the vote took place. "We know for a fact that the reprisals have grown much...